Texas’ Abortion Restrictions Failed, But Other States Are Successfully Advancing Them

Texas’ Abortion Restrictions Failed, But Other States Are Successfully Advancing Them: After a battle that stretched throughout Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) successfully blocked a stringent anti-abortion bill from winning approval in the Texas legislature. Davis noted that defeating SB 5 — which would have criminalized abortion after 20 weeks and forced 90 percent of the abortion clinics in the [...]/p