Texas governor Rick Perry tries to push through abortion bill after filibuster However she conceded on Thursday that the plan was likely to succeed anyway after Rick Perry, the Texas governor and former Republican presidential hopeful, called a special session on Monday to pass the bill, which also bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. She was a teenage mother herself. She managed to eventually graduate from Harvard Law School and serve in the Texas senate," he said. It is just unfortunate that she hasn't learned from her own example that every life must be given a chance to realise its full potential and that every life matters. Responding to the governor's remarks about her personal life, Ms Davis said on Thursday night: "Rick Perry's statement is without dignity and tarnishes the high office he holds." Ms Davis was married when she had her daughter, Amber, in 1981, but separated from her husband soon after. She later had another child and remarried. On Thursday she accused Mr Perry of having a "continued interest in intruding in the privacy of women and their decision-making." "It's big government intruding in private lives in Texas and Texas values don't cotton to that very well," she told CBS News. I'm seeing an uproar against it from all sides of the political spectrum.