Shorter Wendy Davis: The nerve of these women not voting for the candidate that has the same genitalia as they do!
WENDY DAVIS: “It’s an incredible crisis in public health in our state. We now have only seven, maybe eighth — I think there is eight clinics about to open left in our state. And those are in the major cities of San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Ft. Worth, Dallas. But for women who live in West Texas, or El Paso, or in the Rio Grande Valley, they have literally lost access to legal reproductive health care in the state.”
ALEX WAGNER: “One thing that has been surprising to me in this is that Greg Abbott somehow miraculously is running ahead of you by a couple points in the polls among women, and I wonder if you think this latest turn of events in Texas in terms of access to abortion will change that dynamic?”
DAVIS: “You know, I truly do not understand how women can support his candidacy. He not only supports the closure of these clinics that will endanger women’s health across the state, but he’s also said that he wants to roll back the law even further. He wants to make women’s access to reproductive health care illegal even in cases where a woman has been brutally raped; even in cases where a young girl might have been impregnated by her father in instances of incest. And his positions on these things are not in keeping with the positions of most people in our state. And he’s further shown himself to be against women’s interests in other regards. He has said that he will veto an equal pay for equal work bill if one lands on his desk. He has shown a disregard for women in his own office paying them $6,000 less a year than he pays equally qualified men.”