[Vision2020] Tampons threatened during Texas abortion debate

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Washington Post at:

http://tinyurl.com/ng7qr49
 
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Tampons threatened during Texas abortion debate
I can understand if they took away knives and guns. But tampons?
That’s what happened to women who wanted to watch the ongoing debate over proposed abortion restrictions in the Texas senate Friday when state troopers tried to confiscate their tampons and other feminine hygiene products.
Why? Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, the senate president, reportedly didn’t want the women to have any items that could be thrown from the gallery at the lawmakers during their discussion. To be fair, that’s about anything a woman could carry in her purse, and one Twitter photo showed a box of energy bars in the box of confiscated items.
But there’s an ugly side to what sounds like a ridiculous story: According to KETK news,Texas Department of Public Safety officers inspecting bags found one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected of holding feces and three jars suspected to contain paint.
An Associated Press story reported that Texas state Sen. Kirk Watson of Austin, the leader of the Texas Senate Democrats, said he stopped the tampon confiscation and called the move “boneheaded” and “crazy.”
But a news release on the DPS web site states the inspections will continue.
Just remember, as David McLemore, a Texas freelance writer and author of “A Soldier’s Joy,” wrote on his Facebook page: “When tampons are outlawed, only outlaws will have tampons.”
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Courtesy of the Texas Department of Public Safety at:
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/media_and_communications/pr071213a.htm
News Release

July 12, 2013
DPS Enhances Inspections at Texas Capitol

NOTE: The Texas Senate authorized the inspection enhancements.
AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) today received information that individuals planned to use a variety of items or props to disrupt legislative proceedings at the Texas Capitol.
Therefore for safety purposes, DPS recommended to the Texas Senate that all bags be inspected prior to allowing individuals to enter the Senate gallery, which the Texas Senate authorized.

During these inspections, DPS officers have thus far discovered one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to contain feces, and three bottles suspected to contain paint. All of these items – as well as significant quantities of feminine hygiene products, glitter and confetti possessed by individuals – were required to be discarded; otherwise those individuals were denied entry into the gallery.

In the interest of the safety and security of Texas legislators and the general public, these inspections will continue until the conclusion of Senate business

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

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