Democratic State Sen. Wendy Davis garnered attention when she filibustered and blocked a vote on an abortion bill in Texas on Tuesday. As Megyn Kelly recapped the chaos that took place, she invited Kirsten Powers and Monica Crowley to debate the merits of the opposition to the bill — as well as what happens next.

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The bill sought to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and “require abortion clinics to meet the same standards as hospital-style surgical centers and mandate that a doctor who performs abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.”

Crowley quickly called out the “pro-abortion lobby” for “hyperbole,” specifically referring to the argument that women in Texas would have gone to Mexico for the procedure. “Everything in this bill is completely reasonable,” she contended. “This is a direct response to the horrors that we saw in the Gosnell case.”

After Crowley pointed to polling to back up her point, Kelly highlighted the suggestion that such restrictive legislation could lead to more late-term abortions — if women have to drive

hundreds of miles to a clinic and can’t do so earlier in their pregnancy and eventually cross the 20-week mark.

That reasoning didn’t make sense to Powers, who also said the Planned Parenthood and the like exaggerate claims of how many clinics would close. “If the clinics have to close because they’re not meeting health standards, then there’s a problem,” she added, also noting that “we’re talking about healthy babies.”

Powers and Crowley agreed that 20 weeks is late and that most Americans would probably agree a decision should be made before then.

“I personally think it’s sick,” Powers said, as Kelly mentioned President Obama‘s tweet from Tuesday night about “something special” happening in Texas. “Most Americans do not think it’s okay to abort a healthy fetus at 20 weeks.”

For Obama to “intervene,” Crowley chimed in, was “so out of line.”

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