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She will have to keep speaking until after midnight, texas time, when the 30-day special legislative session ends. rules of the state senate say that she has to remain standing. she cannot lean on her desk or take any breaks, let's see if she can do that. up next, the history of voting rights and wrongs in this country. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain. little things anyone can do.
A democratic texas state senator is in the middle of what might turn out to be a 13-hour filibuster of a republican bill that would severely restrict abortion rights in the state of texas. state senator wendy davis of ft. worth began the filibuster at 12:18 this afternoon in order to keep the republican a majority from voting on the bill. she will have to keep speaking until after midnight, texas time, when the 30-day special legislative session ends. rules of the state senate say that she has to remain standing. she cannot lean on her desk or take any breaks, let's see if she can do that. u...
Live pictures coming at you from phoenix right now. we also have casey wian who has been down there covering this nonstop. casey, talk to us a little bit about how they are preparing to enforce the law, given that they're likely going to anticipate these legal challenges. how do they address that? >> reporter: well, the first thing it's important to point out is this law is not actually going to go into effect until probably late july or early august. it goes into effect 90 davis the current legislative session ends. and it's just wrapping up. what the governor said she is going to do, she is ...