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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Last night in Texas, the passage of a controversial abortion bill was stymied in dramatic fashion after an 11 hour filibuster and a screaming crowd of protesters in the gallery of the Senate chamber delayed voting.

The bill would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and force many clinics that perform the procedure to upgrade their facilities and be classified as ambulatory surgical centers. If signed into law, the measures would have closed almost every abortion clinic in Texas.

But despite its long history of controversy, abortion has been and continues to be a widely used method of birth control.



Today's Random Fact:

In 2003, there were approximately 42 million abortions per year worldwide, or 115,000 daily. This was a drop from 46 million in 1995.

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Bonus Fact:

In the 1973 Roe v. Wade case, the United States Supreme Court declared most states' abortion laws illegal, and that women, in consultation with their physicians, have a constitutional right to abortion before viability without interference from the government.

Norma McCorvey is the "Jane Roe" in the Roe vs. Wade case. She has since become pro-life and is the founder of "Roe No More," an organization that provides counseling for women seeking an abortion.