The Houston Chronicle is reporting on Wendy Davis' memoir, Forgetting to Be Afraid, which goes on sale next Tuesday. Davis, who is running for Texas governor against Greg Abbott, filibustered Texas SB 5, draconian anti-choice legislation proposed by Rebublicans in the last legislative session. Let's go below the Orange Filigree for a heart-rending preview of the book.
Peggy Fikac, Austin Bureau Chief for the San Antonio Express-News, reports Davis wrote that her unborn third daughter had an acute brain abnormality. She said doctors told her the syndrome would cause the baby to suffer and was likely incompatible with life. "After getting several medical opinions and feeling the baby they had named Tate Elise “tremble violently, as if someone were applying an electric shock to her” in the womb, she said the decision was clear. “She was suffering,” Davis wrote. The unborn baby's heart was "quieted” by her doctor, and their baby was gone. She was delivered by cesarean section in spring 1997, according to the memoir." Davis wrote that she and her then-husband, Jeff, spent time with Tate the next day and had her baptized. They cried, took photographs and said their good-byes, she wrote, and Tate's lifeless body was taken away the following day.
The evidence is clear that Wendy Davis is pro life, but pro choice for women who face heart-breaking decisions every day.
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