AUSTIN – Procedural questions and objections by House Democrats stalled legislation Sunday to ban abortion at 20 weeks and impose tighter regulations on the procedure. "We may not be in the majority, but unity trumps division any day," said Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, who raised an objection that delayed consideration of a measure concerning youthful capital offenders that preceded the abortion bill on the House agenda. While the objection wasn't raised specifically about the abortion measure, the delay pushed back...
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