Donna Howard (Texas politician)
Donna Howard is a Democrat politician from Texas, representing the 48th District in the Texas House of Representatives.
Before becoming a representative, she served as a community organizer and a critical care nurse. Notwithstanding that nurses should do no harm to patients, she successfully convinced 50 of her fellow representatives to vote "present" (all Democrats; a 51st representative was officially recorded as absent but made a statement that he, too, would have done likewise)[1] on the final vote for House Bill 16 of the 2019 Session, which passed and requires infants born alive after abortion to be given medical care instead of being left to die. She opposed the bill saying it was a "waste of time"; Howard claimed the bill would "further stigmatize abortion, misinform the public, intimidate physicians, and interfere with a woman’s ability to seek medical care" (parroting the views of Planned Parenthood).[2]