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In an attempt to stop the bill from being voted on, pro-abortion state senator Wendy Davis filibustered the bill for more than 10 hours. Her filibuster was ended when she began talking about issues not in the legislation. Once her filibuster was ended, a vote was called on the legislation but the deadline on the vote was missed because of the chaos created by a mob of abortion advocates.
Chaos reigned in the final minutes of the Texas Senate late Tuesday night as opponents of a strict abortion bill succeeded in killing the measure, using a sprawling Democrat-led filibuster, egged on by noisy "unruly mob" protests, to blunt last-ditch efforts by Republicans to save the legislation.......
Republicans initially succeeded in cutting her filibuster off, in part by objecting when another lawmaker helped her with a back brace. But protesters picked up where she left off, jeering at lawmakers as they rushed to meet a midnight deadline for the bill......
After much back and forth, the GOP voted to end the filibuster minutes before midnight, sparking the raucous response from protesters in the final 15 minutes before the deadline.
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