Why hasn't Wendy Davis gotten more flack?
Wendy Davis provides one repeated example of why I tend to be very cynical about politics - following her filibuster against an abortion bill in Texas she's been more lauded than lambasted.
Heralded as the women's voice when failing to represent even a plurality of women on the abortion issue, now Texas Democrats seem to be looking at getting her to run for state governor. Rather I'd argue she should be treated more like Todd Akin following his comments on "legitimate rape" and pregnancy.
Consider what she had to say after staging a lengthy filibuster opposing legislation brought on by the Gosnell murder case (as cited by The Daily Beast):
I don’t know what happened in the Gosnell case ... But I do know that [Gosnell] happened in an ambulatory surgical center. And in Texas changing our clinics to that standard obviously isn’t going to make a difference.
Other than the absurdity of not even having a cursory knowledge of the events that sparked the bill against which she filibustered, as the Daily Beast article notes her assertion is simply false. Here's a quote introduced from grand jury report on the Gosnell case:
The abhorrent conditions and practices inside Gosnell’s clinic [were] directly attributable to the Pennsylvania Health Department’s refusal to treat abortion clinics as ambulatory surgical facilities.
In other words either she's wilfully ignorant or simply a liar.