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Years of organizing, the kind of outpouring and concern, people waiting hours and hours to testify before the legislature against this bill and this legislation. >> cecile, you must be encountering in your travels on the bus in texas opponents of your position. supporters of this bill. and what i am wondering about is the kind of ignorance, just basic raw ignorance that is being demonstrated by the sponsor of the bill, not understanding what rape kits are. not understanding what happens after rape when it is investigated. thinking -- >> right. >> thinking now, as the bill says that there is a ...

Or incest victims and she who's outraged by this. explained she thought that rape but the vast middle seems to be kits which are used to collect indifferent. in part i think because we're so forensic samples from a rape victim's body to be used in used to surrendering our privacy, whether it be to social potential prosecution of the networking or commerce sites or, rapist, she explained she thought rape kits somehow solved you know, anything we do. i read in this new book "big the problem of rape-causing data" that when a 140-character pregnancy. >> we have hospital emergency twitter message, ...

Citizens, again, lining up by the hundreds to testify the way they did last month in the citizens filibuster. democrats are also hinting that they might even go back to their playbook from a decade ago when they fled the state to deny the republicans a quorum. but if you look at the votes, alone, the best-case scenario for the democrats in texas is really just to slow this thing down. the point of fighting is not to defy the fact that republicans have the majority in the legislature. it is rather to make it clear that republicans are going to have a fight on their hands nevertheless. if they w...

Potential prosecution of the rapist, she explained she thought rape kits somehow solved the problem of rape-causing pregnancy. >> we have hospital emergency rooms. we have funded what's called rape kits that will help a woman, it's basically cleaning her out. and, again, hopefully that will alleviate that. >> their belief in a magic cleaner out kit is why republicans did not include an exception for rape victims in their abortion ban. that is a terrible argument and not based in fact at all. but at least the democrats forced the republicans to make that argument out loud so now we all know tha...

There's talk of regular citizens, again, lines up by the hundreds to testify the way they did last month in the citizens filibuster. democrats are also hinting that they might even go back to their playbook from a decade ago when they fled the state to deny the republicans a quorum. but if you look at the votes, alone, the best-case scenario for the democrats in texas is really just to slow this thing down. the point of fighting is not to defy the fact that republicans have the majority in the legislature. it is rather to make it clear that republicans are going to have a fight on their hands ...