AUSTIN — More than 200 Texans lined the walls of a House committee hearing room Thursday evening and packed a nearby overflow room for an hours-long, often emotional debate on legislation to toughen abortion restrictions and ban the procedure after the 20th week of pregnancy. The House State Affairs Committee heard testimony on a package of abortion regulations advancing through the Legislature in the final days of a 30-day special session. Several women on both sides of the issue described for the House State Affairs Committee the personal trauma of the decision to have an abortion. “No one can speak on what a woman is feeling when she’s faced with a...
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