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NEW YORK CITY, July 2, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – A Texas bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks and strengthen abortion clinic safety regulations may have been blocked last week by filibustering State Senator Wendy Davis, but Tuesday, it got support from a seemingly unlikely source: Democratic strategist and commentator Kirsten Powers.

Writing for The Daily Beast, Powers criticized Davis for defending “a medical procedure—elective late-term abortion—that most of the civilized world finds barbaric and abhorrent.”

Wrote Powers, “For now, Wendy Davis has achieved the dubious victory of maintaining a very dark status quo. Texas women will still be able to abort a healthy baby up to the 26th week of pregnancy for any reason, as the current law allows.”

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Powers offered her readers perspective on that, quoting from the Parents Connect website, which tells parents who are 25 weeks pregnant, “Get ready for pat-a-cake! Baby’s hands are now fully developed and he spends most of his awake time groping around in the darkness of your uterus. Brain and nerve endings are developed enough now so that your baby can feel the sensation of touch.”

“Let’s be clear,” wrote Powers. “Davis has been called a hero for trying to block a bill that would make aborting this baby illegal.”

Powers took the senator’s supporters to task, as well.

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“It’s amazing what is considered heroism these days,” Powers wrote.  She quoted Peggy Noonan, who responded to the pro-abortion Twitter hashtag “#StandWithWendy” by saying, “What she is … standing for is something we would recognize as infanticide, late-term abortion, the taking of a little child’s life.”

Wrote Powers, “Standing for that is not heroic, and it is not something to be cheered.”

Powers expressed her frustration that Davis and other extreme abortion proponents continue to claim to speak for women even in the face of polling data to the contrary, calling it “an insult to women dressed up as ‘women’s rights.’”  She called late-term abortion “barbaric” and pointed to the fact that even many socially liberal European countries have banned the practice. 

“One can assume I am … not the only woman in America who is really tiring of the Wendys of the world claiming to represent ‘women’s rights,’” wrote Powers.  “In many European countries, you can’t get an abortion past 12 weeks, except in narrow circumstances. Gallup reported in January that 80 percent of Americans think abortion should be illegal in the third trimester, and 64 percent think it should be illegal in the second trimester.”

As for Davis’s claim that supporters of the Texas bill are men ‘bullying women,’ Powers wrote, “If the majority of Americans oppose elective late-term abortion … [m]aybe it’s she who is bullying the rest of us into supporting a view that is mocked by scientific advancement; namely 3-D sonograms.” 

Added Powers, “Maybe we should be thankful for the men and wonder what is wrong with the women who think protecting the right to abort your baby for any reason up to the 26th week is a ‘human right.’”

“So no, I don’t stand with Wendy,” wrote Powers.  “Nor do most women, as it turns out.”