There's a bill being considered in the Texas legislature among all the other fury of shit they're trying to cram in before the legislature closes for another two years. Besides the education cuts (which, in this case, they can't blame on unionized teachers), they've taken aim at abortion.

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-le...-passes-house/

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/7393242.html

House bill 15 on the table addresses abortion by further expanding an already tightly restricted procedure in Texas. Another similar measure is in the Texas senate. In essence it would have the doctor take a sonogram and record the activity in the womb. Earlier revisions included having the doctor show the recording to the patient who wanted an abortion. Yeah. Not sure how the final product would even look like if it happened to survive a vote and go to committee.

There's a clear agenda behind this by the politicians pushing it, hoping to throw a scrap to the tea-party backing that helped them secure the Texas House. While there will be no issue in passing it in the House, Republicans are two votes short by their own in the Senate in order to pass it.

It's idiotic on another level, considering the straights Texas is in right now regarding its budget shortfall. Apparently this is so important to the Governor that he has marked this bill with "emergency" status, elevating it to the top of bills to be debated in the brief period that the legislature is officially open as well as any emergency sessions.