{"id":15085,"date":"2013-11-07T21:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15085"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:51:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T02:51:17","slug":"wendy-davis-redefines-pro-life-enrages-anti-choicers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/11\/07\/wendy-davis-redefines-pro-life-enrages-anti-choicers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Davis Redefines &#8216;Pro-Life,&#8217; Enrages Anti-Choicers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National memo has the story <a title=\"The National Memo article\" href=\"http:\/\/\/www.nationalmemo.com\/wendy-davis-redefines-pro-life-enrages-anti-choicers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wendy Davis Redefines &#8216;Pro-Life,&#8217; Enrages Anti-Choicers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalmemo.com\/wendy-davis-redefines-pro-life-enrages-anti-choicers\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Poster of Wendy Davis definition of Pro-Life\" src=\"http:\/\/nationalmemo.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ProLife.jpg\" width=\"95%\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am pro-life,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleymorningstar.com\/news\/local_news\/article_5374c1f2-469e-11e3-bc9f-001a4bcf6878.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>she told a University of Texas at Brownsville crowd on Tuesday<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cI care about the life of every child: every child that goes to bed hungry, every child that goes to bed without a proper education, every child that goes to bed without being able to be a part of the Texas dream, every woman and man who worry about their children\u2019s future and their ability to provide for that future. I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>This matches what I think the definition of Pro-Life is. If you want to put a fetus, a zygote, or even an ovum on a par with a child or an adult, you have some &#8216;splaining to do.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Merriam-Webster definition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/fetus\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fetus<\/strong><\/a>: a human being or animal in the later stages of development before it is born<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Merriam-Webster definition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/zygote\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zygote<\/strong><\/a>: a cell that is formed when an egg and a sperm combine<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Merriam-Webster definition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/ovum\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ovum<\/strong><\/a>: a female gamete : macrogamete; especially : a mature egg that has undergone reduction, is ready for fertilization, and takes the form of a relatively large inactive gamete providing a comparatively great amount of reserve material and contributing most of the cytoplasm of the zygote<\/p>\n<p>If you want to let Texans know what you think, you can go right to the article in <strong><a title=\"The Valley Morning Star article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.valleymorningstar.com\/news\/local_news\/article_5374c1f2-469e-11e3-bc9f-001a4bcf6878.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Valley Morning Star<\/a><\/strong> and make a comment. It&#8217;s about time we tried to rescue &#8220;those people&#8221; from the bubble in which they live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National memo has the story Wendy Davis Redefines &#8216;Pro-Life,&#8217; Enrages Anti-Choicers. \u201cI am pro-life,\u201d she told a University of Texas at Brownsville crowd on Tuesday. \u201cI care about the life of every child: every child that goes to bed hungry, every child that goes to bed without a proper education, every child that goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15085"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15091,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085\/revisions\/15091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}