TEXAS: Abortion Bill Battle Comes to Near Blows on House Floor - Houston Chronicle
AUSTIN — Two Texas Republican lawmakers nearly got into a fist fight on the state House floor late Sunday night after a priority of anti-abortion activists surprisingly failed to make it onto the calendar ahead of a key deadline.
Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, got in the face of Rep. Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, at around 9:30 p.m., shortly after Senate Bill 575 died in the last pre-deadline Calendars Committee meeting on a 7-7 vote.
Three Republicans — Reps. Sarah Davis, Debbie Riddle and Patricia Harless — joined with minority Democrats to oppose the bill, which would ban health insurance plans in the state from covering abortion.
“You gave me your word!” Stickland yelled at Cook during a brief confrontation that was broken up by security officers.
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