In Texas, Governor Rick Perry, the Religious Right, and their Republican allies, following Democratic state Senator Wendy Davis's courageous filibuster last week, are literally working overtime to criminalize women's reproductive rights. Commentators correctly point out that a state that purports to be so "pro-life" it must kneecap women also happens to be the repository of the most efficient and voluminous state-sanctioned killing machine. There have been 500 executions (and counting) in the Lone Star State since 1982.
