<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><h1 class="title" style="font-size: 25px; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.25em; text-align: center; -webkit-hyphens: manual; "><span style="font-size: 34px; ">TEXAS WEIGHS BAN ON WOMEN</span></h1><p style="font-size: 14px; "><img alt="borowitz-texas-women-ban.jpg" width="580" height="412" class="reader-image-large" style="float: none; margin: auto auto 0.75em; max-width: 100%; display: block; " id="36209816-afb1-45f9-8c96-bf9e979cbddf" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:A448FCA0-7FA4-456F-9ADC-0125BFD376F2@att.net"></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><b>AUSTIN</b> —Republican lawmakers in the Texas State Senate are proposing a precedent-setting new bill that would make it illegal for women to live in the state.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">Senator Harland Dorrinson, one of the many pro-life lawmakers backing the woman ban, crafted his bill after witnessing Senator Wendy Davis’s filibuster an anti-abortion bill last month.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">“That was our moment to say, ‘Enough is enough,’ ” he said. “This comes down to a choice between life and women, and we choose life.”</p><div style="font-size: 16px; "><p style="line-height: 22px; text-align: justify; ">Senator Dorrinson said his bill would call for a twenty-foot woman-proof fence to be constructed along the borders of the state.</p><p style="line-height: 22px; text-align: justify; ">“Women are great at talking, but not at climbing,” he observed.</p><p style="line-height: 22px; text-align: justify; ">But another G.O.P. state senator, Cal Jamson, believes that the total ban on women goes “too far” and is proposing a less draconian bill that would allow some women to remain in the state as guest workers.</p><p style="line-height: 22px; text-align: justify; ">“Texas needs women to cook, clean, and cheerlead,” he said. “If they show that they can do those things and stay out of politics, there could be a pathway to citizenship.”</p><div style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; text-align: justify; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>