Columnist Burt Prelutsky: “Down in Texas, a female legislator is basing her run for the governor’s mansion on the fact that she delivered a filibuster in opposition to a bill banning abortions after the 20th week. Frankly, I consider all these arbitrary deadlines to be signs of a depraved society. What if the period of human gestation was only a week instead of nine months? Would the knuckleheads be arguing that an abortion could take place up until 8 a.m. on Wednesday, but not a minute later? And isn’t it rather like saying murder is legal until the end of April, but a capital crime after the 1st of May? The abortion advocates use very odd yardsticks.”