Yesterday, I wrote an article speculating about Governor Perry’s political aspirations. In that article, I suggested that the Governor has not always been true to the conservative ideas he espouses around election time. But I have to give him some credit when and where I believe it’s due. Today our governor signed House Bill 15 into law. The new legislation requires any woman seeking an abortion, to first undergo a sonogram. The physician is then required to show and explain the image to the mother, as well as allow her to hear the child’s heart beat.
The purpose of course is to make sure that women are being provided with all possible information before they make the life changing decision to terminate a pregnancy. Critics of the bill say it makes an already difficult decision even more difficult. Really?! By making sure all information is available? Is that the story the pro-aborts are going to stick with? Honestly I don’t see why this is such a terrible idea. No one is prohibiting the woman from making her choice. The goal is simply to make sure she doesn’t make one she’ll regret later!
Some Pro-life groups were also opposing the law on the basis that it provides too many loopholes. These organizations fear that the law is too easy to bypass thanks to exemptions like the baby being a product of rape or incest, or being diagnosed as having “an irreversible medical condition.” While I agree that these and other exemptions are probably too open to interpretation, and while I’m quite sure that various groups who promote abortion will certainly employ them to the point of questionable legality, I have to think that an imperfect protection of the rights of mother and child, is certainly better than no protection at all! Look, this all seems very reasonable to me! At the end of the day who really loses? A child gets another shot at living to term. And the mother has the peace of mind that comes from knowing she’s making a huge decision with all available information, and maybe avoids one that will ruin her life and cost the life of her child unnecessarily. Oh… well of course if she chooses to forgo the abortion and carry the child to term, that’s one less abortion performed and one less check written to a doctor or “reproductive counseling” organization. But of course, nothing this serious is ever about money!
Tyler School Bond Vote
November 2nd, 2010School Bond Vote Tyler TX
Update: Most of the vote is in for the Tyler school bond with 50.14% voting No! and 49.86% voting Yes
It’s down to only 71 votes at this time. That’s close!
As of 1 hour ago the Tyler Texas school bond was 406 votes behind from passing.
If this trend continues we forecast that the Tyler TX 140 million dollar school bond will not pass this October 2010 election.
The Tyler Texas school bond vote allows that good side of people to come out so they can say they did something, “for the children”.
Who doesn’t like children? I have a 2 year old son and another baby boy on the way. The problem with the Tyler TX school bond is we already had an 80 million school bond voted and approved that was afterwards determined to not be enough in 5 years as schools would once again be over capacity.
So now we have a Tyler school bond over 145 million dollars. When a group of concerned citizens with the Tea Party with no political aspirations for themselves asked some very pertinent questions regarding the school bond they were put off.
The Tyler Texas Tea Party’s questions were continuosly put off and the professional politicians acted on the news as if they did answer the Tea Party’s questions.
This type of political question dodging is why America is voting out the Democrats. American’s want honest politicians in government.
By TISD officials not answering the Grass Roots America We The People Tea Party’s questions and yet saying they have is down right dishonest and is what many local citizens hate so much about politics and politicians.
It is important to point out that Grass Roots America isn’t against the children or new schools they just need TISD to get the school bond right this time. Once they have a solid plan in place and have answered the voters questions it would be appropriate to proceed with the school bond.
Unfortunately voters often hear, “for the children” and vote “Yes” considering it their good deed for the year.
I’m hoping the school bond doesn’t pass simply so the career politicians with the TISD will take voters seriously and no longer think that “for the children” will work on voters.
Why can’t the TISD officials really answer these hard questions from the Tea Party and quit playing politics? What are ya’ll trying to hide?
You are lying in the faces of regular ole’ average Joe voters rather than serving the public and answering unpopular hard questions.
We will find out tonight if the 140 million dollar school bond passes tonight. If so more really nice schools will be built in Tyler but how long until their capacity is reached? Doesn’t it make sense to to do this right the first time?
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