UPDATE 7:03 pm: Democratic organizer Matt Angle issued this statement on the second special session: 
 
 “Less than 24 hours after a heroic filibuster by Texas State Senator Wendy Davis and her Senate colleagues, Gov. Rick Perry once again reminded voters here why he has become a Texas-sized symbol of failure and blind self-serving partisanship. 
 
 Perry’s call for a 2nd Special Session is big and intrusive government at its worst. Rather than working to solve real problems and meet the real challenges we face in creating jobs, improving schools and building a better Texas, Perry has made it clear that those issues don’t matter to him. 
 
 Rick Perry is more concerned with feeding his own political ambitions – even if that means dictating to millions of Texans what they can and cannot do in the most private aspects of their lives – even if it means forcing Texas citizens to pay for his expensive partisan pandering. 
 
 This outrageous action is just the latest example of Rick Perry’s profoundly failed leadership.” 
 
 ORIGINAL POST: Gov. Rick Perry is calling lawmakers back immediately for another special session to deal with abortion issues, and also to consider transportation funding and new sentencing guidelines for 17-year-olds convicted of capital crimes. 
 
 Unlike the last 30-day special session, Perry is not waiting 16 days before adding abortion to the agenda. It will start immediately. 
 
 “Through their duly elected representatives, the citizens of our state have made crystal clear their priorities for our great state,” Perry said in his proclamation. 
 
 “Texans value life and want to protect women and the unborn. Texans want a transportation system that keeps them moving. Texans want a court system that is fair and just,” he said. 
 
 Perry also alluded to the throngs who flooded the Capitol Tuesday night and disrupted the Senate just as it was poised to break the filibuster of Sen. Wendy Davis and push through abortion regulations. 
 
 “We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do,” Perry said. ||||| The Texas state senator who stood and spoke for hours against some of the country's toughest proposed abortion restrictions quickly became a political superstar in pink tennis shoes. 
 
 This combination of screen shots from cell phone video shows two views of the Texas Legislature's computer system Wednesday, June 26, 2013, that recorded a vote on an abortion restrictions bill after... (Associated Press) 
 
 Members of the gallery cheer and chant as the Texas Senate tries to bring an abortion bill to a vote as time expires, Wednesday, June 26, 2013, in Austin, Texas. Amid the deafening roar of abortion rights... (Associated Press) 
 
 Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, center, holds up two fingers to signal a "No" vote as the session where they tried to filibuster an abortion bill draws to a close, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, in Austin, Texas.... (Associated Press) 
 
 Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, reacts after she was called for a third and final violation in rules to end her filibuster attempt to kill an abortion bill, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, in Austin, Texas. The... (Associated Press) 
 
 Wendy Davis needed last-minute help from shrieking supporters to run out the clock on the special session of the state Legislature and kill the bill, but her old-fashioned filibuster speech earned her widespread praise _ including a salute from President Barack Obama. 
 
 But Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday called for the Texas Legislature to meet in a second special session July 1 to pass the abortion restrictions. The Republican governor can call as many 30-day extra sessions as he likes. 
 
 Davis, 50, was on her feet for more than 12 hours Tuesday _ actively speaking most of that time while obeying rules against not sitting, leaning or taking breaks for meals or the restroom _ in a marathon speech seeking to block a bill that would close nearly every abortion clinic in the nation's second-largest state. 
 
 As a midnight deadline loomed and the rare Democrat in a heavily Republican state continued to talk, political junkies from the U.S. and elsewhere tuned in via Internet, and Davis' followers on Twitter ballooned from around 1,200 to more than 79,000. 
 
 Suddenly, photos of the running shoes were everywhere, and (hash)StandWithWendy was trending. 
 
 Obama's official Twitter account posted: "Something special is happening in Austin tonight." 
 
 Davis' speech ultimately lasted about 11 hours before Republicans complained she had strayed off topic and cut her off. But that action prompted a lengthy debate and deafening protests from hundreds of abortion rights activists in the gallery that spilled past the midnight deadline. 
 
 "Thanks to the powerful voices of thousands of Texans, (hash)SB5 is dead," Davis tweeted Wednesday morning. "An incredible victory for Texas women and those who love them." 
 
 The bill would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy _ a move other conservative-leaning states are making as they try to challenge the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal. 
 
 The bill also would close almost every abortion clinic in Texas, a vast state of 26 million people. A woman living along the Mexico border or in West Texas would have to drive hundreds of miles (kilometers) to obtain an abortion if the law passes. In addition, the bill's provision that abortions be performed at surgical centers means only five of Texas' 42 abortion clinics are currently designated to remain in operation. 
 
 An avid runner and cyclist, Davis was in good shape for the physical challenge of standing and talking for nearly half a day. 
 
 Because the rules didn't allow her to sit down, her chair was removed. Davis, who at one point fought tears while reading testimony from women opposed to the bill, shifted her weight from hip to hip and paced around her desk to stay sharp as the hours ticked by. 
 
 Later, a colleague helped her with a back brace _ prompting a complaint from a Republican lawmaker. 
 
 "My back hurts," Davis said when it was over. "I don't have a lot of words left."
– Will Wendy Davis bust out her pink tennis shoes again? Texas Gov. Rick Perry has called another special legislative session beginning July 1 to put in place stringent new abortion restrictions statewide, reports the Dallas Morning News. Davis famously foiled him the first time around with a 12-plus-hour filibuster last night that helped run out the clock on the special session. (She got some late help from boisterous supporters after Republicans called her on a rules violation.) No word yet on whether Democrat Davis plans another filibuster, but Perry vows that "we will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do." Abortion isn't the only topic on the agenda for the 30-day special session, but this time Perry plans to have it addressed immediately instead of waiting until the end. The tough new abortion rules would outlaw the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy and effectively shut down most of the state's clinics, reports AP.