First Lady of Texas: Abortion is “a woman’s right”
Texas’ first lady Anita Perry told an interviewer on Saturday that she thinks abortion is “a woman’s right.” Gov. Rick Perry, her husband, has vigorously pushed through laws restricting abortion access in Texas.
Think Progress reports, “He is on record deriding the idea that the right to privacy extends to abortion, has signed a pledge urging opposition to abortion “without exception and without compromise,” and explicitly stated that his goal is to make abortion in Texas “a thing of the past.”
During an interview at the Texas Tribune Festival she was asked if she feels the governor’s administration “got it right” on abortion policy, and she responded, “Well, that’s really difficult for me me, Evan, because I see it as a woman’s right. If they want to do that, that is their decision. They have to live with that decision.”
She was then asked,”Mrs. Perry, I want to be sure that you didn’t just inadvertently make news. Are you saying that you believe that abortion is a woman’s right - to make that choice?”
Ms. Perry responded, “It is not mine. It is not something that I would say for them.”
She was asked, “Do you believe that the state is attempting to say for them? And that if the governor and the administration had its way it would say for women that it is not their right?”
Perry responded, “I think it goes back to the states and Texas has decided that no that is not what we want in the state.”
The question was posed the question again,”But your personal point of view is that it’s a person’s decision within the law to make that choice?”
She responded, “Well I don’t really think that’s making news. I mean, I think that yeah, that could be a woman’s right. Just like it’s a man’s right if he wants to have some kind of procedure.”
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I don't know about anyone else, but I'd kind of love to have been a fly on the TX Governor's Mansion wall right after old Rick found about this.
(P.S. Apologies in advance if the video embed doesn't work. I haven't had much luck with embedding in the past but thought it wouldn't hurt to try. If it turns out to be borked, you can always go to the source to see it.)
Think Progress reports, “He is on record deriding the idea that the right to privacy extends to abortion, has signed a pledge urging opposition to abortion “without exception and without compromise,” and explicitly stated that his goal is to make abortion in Texas “a thing of the past.”
During an interview at the Texas Tribune Festival she was asked if she feels the governor’s administration “got it right” on abortion policy, and she responded, “Well, that’s really difficult for me me, Evan, because I see it as a woman’s right. If they want to do that, that is their decision. They have to live with that decision.”
She was then asked,”Mrs. Perry, I want to be sure that you didn’t just inadvertently make news. Are you saying that you believe that abortion is a woman’s right - to make that choice?”
Ms. Perry responded, “It is not mine. It is not something that I would say for them.”
She was asked, “Do you believe that the state is attempting to say for them? And that if the governor and the administration had its way it would say for women that it is not their right?”
Perry responded, “I think it goes back to the states and Texas has decided that no that is not what we want in the state.”
The question was posed the question again,”But your personal point of view is that it’s a person’s decision within the law to make that choice?”
She responded, “Well I don’t really think that’s making news. I mean, I think that yeah, that could be a woman’s right. Just like it’s a man’s right if he wants to have some kind of procedure.”
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I don't know about anyone else, but I'd kind of love to have been a fly on the TX Governor's Mansion wall right after old Rick found about this.
(P.S. Apologies in advance if the video embed doesn't work. I haven't had much luck with embedding in the past but thought it wouldn't hurt to try. If it turns out to be borked, you can always go to the source to see it.)