Mammoth filibuster: Wendy Davis. Photo: AP Texas state Senator Wendy Davis’s filibuster to block new abortion limits ended in defeat after she had stood and talked for more than 10 hours without food or bathroom breaks, with the ruling drawing jeers and chants from hundreds of people watching from the gallery. Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, a Republican, ruled that Davis’s comments about an abortion bill that passed in 2011 weren’t germane to the subject of her filibuster, a measure that would ban the procedure after 20 weeks and impose other limits. ‘‘Let her speak, let her speak,’’ the crowd of observers chanted from above, referring to Davis,...
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