{"id":612501,"date":"2017-05-02T16:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T21:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=612501"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T21:21:03","slug":"schaefer-sounds-off-on-pro-life-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=612501","title":{"rendered":"Schaefer Sounds Off on Pro-Life Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/matt-schaeffer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/matt-schaeffer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-612502\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN &#8212; Texas right to life Republicans in the state House threaten to go over the speaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head to get their bills heard, with a Tyler lawmaker in the forefront.  Weeks ago the Texas Freedom Caucus called for Speaker Straus to give the transgender bathroom bill a committee hearing and they got it; now they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re pushing for hearings for dismemberment abortion ban bills.   State Representative Matt Schaefer said, &#8220;So you just don&#8217;t count votes on pro-life bills in the Texas House. You have to count the days left on the calendar, because unfortunately, session after session, the Texas House of Representatives has not prioritized pro-life bills.&#8221;  Schaefer is also threatening to push for Governor Abbott to call for a special session if the bills are held up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; Texas right to life Republicans in the state House threaten to go over the speaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head to get their bills heard, with a Tyler lawmaker in the forefront. Weeks ago the Texas Freedom Caucus called for Speaker Straus to give the transgender bathroom bill a committee hearing and they got it; now they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=612501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schaefer Sounds Off on Pro-Life Issues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":612502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 01:02:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612503,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612501\/revisions\/612503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}