Texas Abortion Bill Author In 2007: No Health Care For Unborn Because 'They're Not Born Yet' ( blog 4 )

If a woman is three months pregnant, should the babe be able to qualify for health care? This is the argument that Texas State Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R) is had with the House of Representatives back in 2007.   Jodie Laubenberg is pro-life and the bill that she is trying to get passed responding to her new idea that health care should be for the baby as soon as the mother becomes pregnant, “the definite death to the 70,000-plus babies who have been aborted in this state”. Eventually laubenberg pulled back her amendment, because Democratic Rep. Rafael Anchia argued against laubenberg saying that she is the change would mean that more than 95,000 children, in utero. Anchia also argued that she is actually pushing an “anti-life amendment because she does not thing that the unborn babies are not U.S citizens because they have not been born yet. She thought that all of anchia’s data was wrong and she also says that “no one [is] more pro-life” then she is.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/texas-abortion-bill-author_n_3570588.html

In Grid Debate, New Info Doesn't Sway Opinions (blog 3)

In the article that I have read, I get a feeling the author is leaning himself towards the side that is pushing for Texas to switch over to “capacity” market, instead of staying on the old fashion “energy only” market. I believe that this is only because that, if we do switch to the “capacity” market. Capacity market supporters say that there is only a 1-2 percent increase in charge. “The report suggests that switching to a capacity market would cost consumers about $400 million per year in the long run. That includes $3.2 billion in capacity payments to generators, with $2.8 billion in reduced costs of the electricity itself because of increased market certainty. Though the $400 million tab appears huge, it would only amount to a 1 percent increase in electricity rates in Texas.” (Jim Malewitz).

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/02/04/grid-debate-new-info-does-little-sway-opinions/