The Importance of Minorities and Majorities

The Daily Texan published an article on Monday, July 1st regarding the hot button abortion debate topic and the effect passing the bill would have on University students as well as other women seeking healthcare from the affected clinics.  This article startled me initially, as it seemed to imply that if SB 5 were to pass that many female students would be forced to receive unsafe abortions - as if there's a high quantity of students getting abortions in the first place.  This concerned me in two ways: either the author is correct, and there's a trend among these (highly educated) ladies to rely on abortion, or the author is incorrect and simply warping the truth for the sake of a controversial article.  In any case however, this was not the most critical point of the article.  As the author describes the event of Sen. Wendy Davis' filibuster, he explains that "Democrats, the minority party, successfully killed the abortion bill SB 5 by talking nonstop for 11 hours." This statement is delightfully simplistic and helped me articulate a thought that had been rolling around in my head for some time now.  One of the key issues regarding Senate Bill 5 is women's rights and the representation of women's beliefs in Texas Government.  However, Pence is correct in mentioning that Democrats are currently the minority in the Texas Senate.  The point I'm trying to get at is that many liberals and other pro-choice believers are creating this image that the Senate is somehow passing a bill that few people support, but that's simply untrue.  We know that Republicans tend to be pro-life believers and Democrats pro-choice, so in this event I believe it's clear that the majority ultimately won, which is a representative majority of the entire state of Texas, a fact which I think has been overlooked.  This article provides great insight from both sides of the SB 5 debate, and is a very thought provoking read.