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Wendy Davis, currently under attack as "Abortion Barbie," says "I am Pro-Life." Wait, what?

The fear from of Texas gubernatorial hopeful Wendy Davis coming form the Right Wing has reached almost hysteric proportions.

She is under constant attack from Rush Limbaugh and Red State's Eric Erickson has taken to referring to her as "Abortion Barbie."

There is even a Right Wing website dedicated to attacking her.

Oh yeah there is definitely some panic taking place over on the conservative side of the aisle.

So the other day Wendy Davis visited the University of Texas at Brownsville, and had this to say:

“The battle over reproductive rights and women’s health care that was waged on June 25 was not a battle I chose,” she said. “When I believe women’s health is in danger, I’m going to stand and fight to protect that.”

Davis said that battle had beginnings in 2011, when the reduction of funding for women’s health care led to a decrease in women’s health care access for more than 160,000 women – services that included family planning and sexual education along with abortions in some instances.

“This isn’t about protecting abortion. It’s about protecting women,” she said. “It’s about trusting women to make good decisions for themselves and empowering them with the tools to do that.”

Davis does not want to portray herself as a one-issue candidate, noting that her job on the campaign trail is to allow voters to see who she really is.

“(I’m) a woman who wants desperately for others who are coming up in poverty to receive the same kind of partnership from the state that I once received so that they too can become a part of the success of Texas,” she said.

Davis suggested that her views on abortion access do not mean she does not care about life.

“I am pro-life,” she said, borrowing from the label anti-abortion activists assign themselves. “I care about the life of every child: every child that goes to bed hungry, every child that goes to bed without a proper education, every child that goes to bed without being able to be a part of the Texas dream, every woman and man who worry about their children’s future and their ability to provide for that future. I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else.”

That is very well put. And it is put in a way that is especially effective coming from a female candidate.

Calling herself "pro-life" and laying out what that means to her, is a VERY powerful, and aggressive stance to take that reminds me of Hillary's 2009 statement more than just a little bit.

The Right can go after Wendy Davis all day every day if they want to, and attack her on everything from her looks, to her mental health, to her stance on abortion. But if she stands up to that kind of bullying, and states her case as clearly as she did above, then she will still be standing long after they have slunk off to lick their wounds in response to having their asses handed to them after the 2014 election.

And the Right better get very comfortable with wound licking, because I think they will need plenty of tongue baths after 2016. (Okay that came out kind of icky, but you know what I mean.)

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