“It is too early to say whether Wendy Davis’s revelation of her own abortion will help, hinder or have no effect on her underdog campaign to become the first Democratic governor of Texas in two decades.

But in recounting in a new memoir her decision in 1997 to terminate a wanted pregnancy, and seek a post 20-week abortion after learning of a severe brain abnormality, Ms. Davis has reinforced the wisdom of letting women sort out their medical options. Sort out independently, unimpeded by the harsh restrictions Texas enacted last year despite the riveting marathon filibuster that propelled Ms. Davis into the national spotlight.

The package included a new 20-week abortion ban, but it is unclear whether it would have prevented Ms. Davis from terminating her pregnancy. The law has a narrow exception for fetal anomalies that applies only if it is deemed the fetus would likely be unable to survive outside the womb, not “just” likely to be in a permanent vegetative state. Either way, the ban seems bound to shrink the availability of doctors willing to help women who find themselves in the anguishing situation Ms. Davis depicts in her book, especially given the prospect of harassing investigations into the reasons for a later abortion, and government rifling through sensitive medical records.” *

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/what-to-make-of-wendy-daviss-abortion-revelation/?src=twr