{"id":1782,"date":"2013-06-27T16:13:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T10:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2013-06-28T06:40:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T01:10:27","slug":"person-of-the-month-wendy-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/person-of-the-month-wendy-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Person Of the Month: Wendy Davis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Filibuster\">filibuster<\/a> is a\u00a0parliamentary\u00a0procedure where a debate is deliberately extended in order to prevent a vote on a certain issue. Can it be a form of subversion? Certainly! And that is exactly what Wendy Davis, the democratic Senator from Texas, USA did when she used her 13-hour long speech to stall the hearing of legislation that could have shut down every single abortion facility in the state. And for that long speech , Wendy Davis is also our Person Of The Month for June. We think she deserves a 13-hour applause for her effort!<\/p>\n<p>You can catch the excitement in the room here, as women cheer long and hard for Wendy Davis:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nmq784GrXrY\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The speech was as exhausting as it sounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/nation.time.com\/2013\/06\/26\/meet-the-woman-behind-the-texas-abortion-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reports say<\/a> that Ms. Davis remained standing the entire time, stayed on topic, and did not even take a bathroom break during this entire time. When asked what she had to say about the day, she commented\u00a0&#8220;My back hurts. I don&#8217;t have a lot of words left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nation.time.com\/2013\/06\/26\/meet-the-woman-behind-the-texas-abortion-filibuster\/#ixzz2XQoDeK17\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1783\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/person-of-the-month-wendy-davis\/texan-abortion-vote-speaker-senator-wendy-davis\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wendy-Davis.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"460,276\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Photograph: Eric Gay\\\/AP&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;AP&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Texan abortion vote speaker senator Wendy Davis&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Texan abortion vote speaker senator Wendy Davis\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wendy-Davis-300x180.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wendy-Davis.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1783\" alt=\"Texan abortion vote speaker senator Wendy Davis\" src=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wendy-Davis-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wendy-Davis-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wendy-Davis.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Time Magazine has done a special on Ms. Davis<\/a>, which says, &#8220;Davis, now 50, started working at 14, and by the age of 19, she was divorced and raising a child. She enrolled in community college and eventually transferred to Texas Christian University. After graduating first in her class, she left the state to attend Harvard Law School. With a law degree in hand, Davis became a practicing attorney in Fort Worth and joined the Fort Worth city council, serving for nine years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>American women and men showed their appreciation almost immediately on social media. Ms. Davis&#8217;s following on Twitter soared, reaching a following of 20,000 from an earlier 1200. Even now, <a href=\"http:\/\/action.rhrealitycheck.org\/page\/s\/help-us-thank-our-texas-heroes\" target=\"_blank\">RH Reality Check is running a signature campaign<\/a> to thank Ms. Davis, who not only stood up for the state of Texas, but for the entire prochoice movement, by stalling a law that could have inspired such restrictions in the future.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bad news is: she has only stalled it. Texas has an anti-choice governor, Rick Perry, who you might remember from the Republican Primaries that preceded the Presidential election in 2012. Perry is likely to call for a special session to take a vote, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/26\/rick-perry-texas-abortion-bill-filibuster\" target=\"_blank\">according to media reports<\/a>. If he does, this bill will probably pass.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Wendy Davis will remain a hero for lending her voice to thousands of women, and for lending that voice for a time long enough to block the vote at least once!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A filibuster is a\u00a0parliamentary\u00a0procedure where a debate is deliberately extended in order to prevent a vote on a certain issue. Can it be a form of subversion? Certainly! 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