Melissa Beckett for Texas
252 posts
@melissafortexas
Candidate - Texas House District 7 (Gregg, Harrison, & Marion Counties). Christian Conservative Republican Protecting Families & Wallets. https://t.co/JHffGcTgCF
🚨🚨🚨 @TXAlliance4Life is trying to significantly weaken the anti-abortion planks of the platform of the Republican Party of Texas. For years, Texas Republicans have proudly defended a party platform that affirms our commitment to equally protecting the lives of preborn children. But proposed platform amendments by @TXAlliance4Life threaten this. @TXAlliance4Life is trying to strike Plank 23, which calls for equal protection for preborn children, and Plank 195 (on abolishing abortion), replacing these planks with watered down language that would keep abortion legal in Texas. @TXAlliance4Life has a long history of opposing abortion restrictions, so it’s not surprising they would try to gut the RPT platform’s strong anti-abortion planks. Last session, they fought tooth and nail to kill my bill to abolish abortion in Texas, which was consistent with the very planks @TXAlliance4Life is now trying to strike. I am calling on delegates to the RPT to uphold our longstanding commitment to protecting preborn children and reject @TXAlliance4Life’s attempt to gut our party’s platform on the issue of life. --- BACKGROUND ON TAL: Under the leadership of Joe Pojman, TAL has made it a habit of opposing or refusing to support anti-abortion bills — even bills that fell well short of full equal protection — not because the bills protected too few babies, but because TAL's position was that they protected too many. For example, in 2017, TAL refused to support SB 415, which was a ban on dismemberment abortions.[1] Also, in 2017, TAL opposed an amendment to the 20-week abortion ban law that would have protected babies targeted for abortion due to fetal abnormalities.[2] In 2019, Pojman and TAL did not support the Fetal Heartbeat Act, instead recommending that the legislature focus on “bills that have a reasonable chance of sustaining a federal court challenge.”[3] Most recently, when HB 2197, which would provide equal protection to every preborn child in Texas, was scheduled to be heard in committee, TAL mounted a campaign against the bill, which caused the hearing on HB 2197 to be cancelled. After HB 2197 was already dead, Joe Pojman proceeded to spend countless hours calling co-authors of HB 2197 off of the House floor to pressure them to jump off the bill. In the 89th session, it appears that TAL spent more time advocating against a bill that would provide equal protection to preborn babies in Texas than he did advocating in favor of any pro-life bill of their own. [1] facebook.com/tonytinderholt… [2] texasallianceforlife.org/ernest-bailes-… [3] texasobserver.org/the-fetal-hear…
Americans don’t want Big Brother controlling our cars, tracking our money, or spying on our lives. KILL THE KILL SWITCH. BAN CBDC. GET A WARRANT. REFORM FISA.
BREAKING: Texas State University's Gender Studies director admits they still push DEI. She says "the law doesn't apply to academics." "We've been building this up for the last 20 years. It's hard for them to undo all this." What in the world is going on here, @txst?
Where is the political courage to let people prosper in Texas? We need to end property taxes. Plenty of ways to do it. Just need courageous leaders!
15 million aliens were allowed to pour into the country in just four years under the previous administration. This is not immigration, it’s invasion. America must never return to open border policies.
