Pro-Choice

The justice who reviews controversial/appealed Texas cases, to sustain or block suspension of laws like Perry's anti-abortion law, happens to be the arch conservative justice, Scalia. He's since re-instated Perry's law. Though all this is pending a full Supreme Court case by Planned Parenthood.

In the meantime, more than a dozen clinics and their abortion services, are still shut down in Texas.

Abortion opponents are claiming it is a health issue; claiming that clinic physicians need to have (financially expensive) admission rights to local hospitals. Though 1) clearly the opposition as originally not health-based, but morality-based (conservative Catholic, etc.); the groups that opposed clinics in Texas typically announced a moral, not health aim, in their very name: they were "Pro Life" and so forth. Not health groups.

Confirming that, 2) key physicians in Texas flatly say that such "health" measures are not medically indicated. But in fact are examples of conservative Christian moral views increasingly imposed on Science and medicine.

By the way, Rick Perry of course is a person who wanted to shut down whole segments of the government - but then couldn't remember in the debates which ones. But for the Texas base, don't overlook however Sen. Patrick. He's the former conservative Limbaugh-like talk show host from Houston, who also backs all these anti-abortion measures from the Texas Senate; now running for Lt. Gov. Texas?