Join Addicting Info‘s Texas correspondent, Egberto Willies in Austin, Texas for exclusive coverage, interviews, photos, and videos as crowds of Texas women dramatically take their last stand against the Republican’s draconian anti-abortion bill. As a flood of orange “Stand With Texas Women” T-shirts surges into the state Capitol, the blue-clad anti-choice bill’s supporters look determined but woefully outnumbered. The vote is scheduled for later Friday evening or Saturday morning. It may only be Friday the 12th — not the 13th — but it’s still looking like a very unlucky day for Republicans.

7/12 6:30 p.m. CT, Pro-Choicers and Anti-Choicers Battle With Chants in the Texas Capitol Rotunda

The planned evening rally has simply overpowered the entire Capitol. As the protest heats up in the Texas Capitol Rotunda. The pro-choice and anti-choice duke it out with chants, but supporters of the abortion law can barely be heard.

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The battle of the chants begins. Here’s the video:

As crowds of outraged Texas women and their supporters overwhelm their state Capitol for a scheduled evening rally, one group of protesters chants: “We won’t, we won’t we won’t go back!”

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7/12: 6:00 p.m. Long Lines to the Senate Chambers

If you want to come to the rally, you’re going to have to wait on a long, long line … is it because security has to search so many women for potentially lethal tampons?

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7/12: 5:30 p.m. CT, Texas Capitol Flooded in Sea of Orange

Orange is the pro-choice Stand With Texas Women’s color. Blue is the anti-choice opposition’s color. As Texans gather for the upcoming rally, we’re not seeing much blue around here.

7/12: 4:30 p.m. CT, Protests in the Rotunda:

7/12: 2:20 p.m. CT: Scenes from the State Capitol Building’s Rotunda

7/13 2:00 p.m. CT: Egberto Willies interviews Andrea Gardner.

Meet the heroic Texas woman who has made the trek to Austin, TX seven times, while ferrying dozens of her fellow Houston area residents back and forth so they, too, can Stand With Texas Women against the GOP’s draconian anti-abortion measures.

Andrea shares the same opinion of many Texans, who feel appalled by the extent to which Texas Republicans have infringed on women’s rights to reproductive health and making decisions about their own bodies and family planning. Although the bill is likely to pass, Andrea does not believe all her efforts are in vain. She believes this is the genesis of a new and powerful home-grown Texas Progressive Movement.

“This legislature has run amok!” Gardner declares indignantly.

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