{"id":1448138,"date":"2022-04-20T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1448138"},"modified":"2022-04-20T17:43:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T21:43:11","slug":"wendy-davis-gears-up-for-following-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wendy-davis-gears-up-for-following-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Davis Gears Up for Following Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwendy-davis-gears-up-for-following-failure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1448138&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Perennial political failure Wendy Davis on Tuesday filed a legal challenge to the Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans abortion after six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Davis claims the act, which allows citizens to sue anyone who performs or enables an abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, is &#8220;blatantly unconstitutional.&#8221; Davis&#8217;s lawsuit targets a state legislator and three pro-life activists who are taking steps to sue pro-abortion funds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Defendants&#8217; public threats against abortion funds and their associates have had a chilling effect on some of those organizations and individuals \u2026 which intrudes upon Ms. Davis&#8217;s ability to associate with like-minded people to express her views and achieve her advocacy goals,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/570823185\/Davis-v-Sharp-complaint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute over the heartbeat law is the opening act to a longer drama. The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/roe-v-wade-in-serious-danger-as-supreme-court-hears-challenge-to-mississippi-abortion-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heard<\/a> a direct challenge to <em>Roe<\/em> v. <em>Wade<\/em> in December 2021 and signaled the landmark case could be overturned by summer. The number of abortions in Texas fell by 50 percent following implementation of the law in September.<\/p>\n<p>Davis works with an Austin-based abortion support group called the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity. Lilith and its allies pay for abortions or help clients obtain the procedure out of state, meaning they&#8217;re liable under the heartbeat law. Another pro-abortion group called the Stigma Relief Fund, and two of its board members, joined Davis as plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks on the heartbeat law have stalled since the Texas Supreme Court snuffed out the most promising attack on the act in March.<\/p>\n<p>Davis&#8217;s case, <em>Davis<\/em> v. <em>Sharp<\/em>, was assigned to U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in the federal trial court in Austin. In an extraordinary and unusual step, Pitman last year <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/federal-judge-blocks-texas-abortion-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forbade<\/a> citizens from filing suits under the act and barred Texas courts from accepting them. His decision was overturned on appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, who lost a bid for Texas governor by 20 points and a bid for an Austin-area congressional seat by 7 points, fails as a litigant much as she fails as a politician. She sued the <em>Fort Worth Star-Telegram <\/em>after she lost her first bid for the city council in 1996, alleging the paper\u2019s &#8220;biased&#8221; coverage spoiled her campaign and her mental health. A judge tossed the case on First Amendment grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Davis also lost the famed pink tennis shoes she wore during her filibuster of a law banning abortions after 20 weeks. The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/i-bought-wendy-davis-pink-sneakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">swiped<\/a> them from an estate sale at her Fort Worth home in 2016 for $120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perennial political failure Wendy Davis on Tuesday filed a legal challenge to the Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans abortion after six weeks. 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