Talking #TXHealth on Twitter
Highlights from our reader chats with state Senator Dan Patrick, state Representative Donna Howard and writer Mimi Swartz about Swartz's current TEXAS MONTHLY cover story, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives
- This week, TEXAS MONTHLY's Mimi Swartz--or rather, @mimiswartz--took to Twitter to discuss her August cover story on women's health. She was joined by two state legislators--state senator Dan Patrick and state representative Donna Howard--both of whom are featured in the article.The first chat was on Tuesday, with Patrick, the main sponsor of SB 16, a.k.a. the "sonogram bill". With Planned Parenthood encouraging its followers to tweet and pro-life forces countering with a hashtag of their own, things became a little heated.
@mimiswartz #txhealth Isn't it true the sonograms were already being performed but not shown to the women?
@missemhorne No. Planned Parenthood did show sonograms to any woman who requested to see one. #txhealth
@mimiswartz @danpatrick #txhealth I was present for all sono hearings and recall testimony that sonograms were performed & avail for view- @amstephens47 Dan, that is my question too. Want to take a crack please? #txhealth
- Patrick did not get a chance to answer this, but he did state that his bill does not mandate the type of sonogram to be performed.
That is straight up, false,@DanPatrick. When you force doctors to report gestational age, you force transvag ults. @mimiswartz #txhealth
.@DanPatrick, several people taking part in this #TXhealth debate are out-of-state or pro-life activists. No vetoing @JasStanford- @mimiswartz Have you seen the horrors of unregulated abortion? How is it scary to add a statute that backs up medical practice? #txhealth
- @missemhorne isn't the point to provide safe legal abortions instead of unregulated ones? #txhealth
- @mimiswartz @DanPatrick #txhealth: No, I'm not ashamed to say my goal is to end abortion and give women better care than that horror.
.@DanPatrick @mimiswartz Abortion is healthcare that Texas women need. Stop trying to deny that FACT. #txhealth- @DanPatrick #txhealth Texas Lege should have to see pics of 80k kids added to public schools each year before defunding public education.
@DanPatrick An more effective way to reduce abrtns= Compreh sex ed. Defunding is punitive and short-sighted. #txhealth- I have read your bill, Senator. Please explain to me, like I'm 5, what Section 2.a.1.C means then, @DanPatrick. #txhealth
