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Pro-Life Candidate Wins Seat Vacated By ‘Abortion Barbie’

Election night saw a euphoric wave of Republican victory after Republican victory, a satisfying turn of events after an incredibly disappointing two years since Obama won re-election. Here is a little tidbit from the elections that might have escaped national scrutiny, but could amount to one of the most satisfying moments in politics – especially if you are a supporter of pro-life causes.

Wendy Davis, the Democrat gubernatorial candidate in Texas, became famous for an 11-hour filibuster in which she argued a woman’s right to late-term abortions. The filibuster propelled her status in liberal spheres, so much so that her ascendancy toward the governorship was thought to be inevitable.


Davis lost to Republican Greg Abbott on Tuesday, by over 20 points.


Not only was Davis’ loss a catastrophic string of missteps – from tweeting out photos of college Republicans and pretending they were her supporters, to running ads mocking an accident that left her opponent in a wheel chair – but she had to give up her seat in the Texas Senate in order to mount a campaign.

And here is where the irony comes into play. Davis – who had become known as “Abortion Barbie” for her single-platform efforts – had her seat captured by a pro-life Tea Party activist named Konni Burton.

Via the National Review (H/T: Weasel Zippers):




Indeed, Burton ran on a particular policy issue called the Sanctity of Life. Her campaign website states:


Burton, who values the life of yet-born children, now fills the seat vacated by a woman made famous for arguing the right to terminate that child’s life.

To quote Jeff Goldblum in the movie Jurassic Park …

Read more at The Political Insider

Rusty Weiss


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