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On Wednesday, Texas State Senator Charles Schwertner accidentally smashed a glass table with his gavel while attempting to silence an intern from NARAL Pro-Choice Texas during her testimony against an anti-abortion bill.
Maggie Hennessy, the 24-year-old intern, was testifying against Senate Bill 415 which would limit physicians abilities to perform dilation and evacuation procedures (also known as D&E, but referred in the bill as dismemberment). This procedure is the safest form of second-trimester abortion and is used in almost all cases.
Senate Bill 415 is not designed to protect womens health and will have the result of harming women in Texas, Hennessy said in her two-minute testimony. A vote in favor of this bill is a vote against womens health... Considering Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States ― a rate so high that it is even comparable to rates in countries where abortion is illegal ― I have to ask how, how will this bill do anything but further increase that rate?
Hennessy was finishing her testimony ― a few seconds over the time limit ― with a powerful message: I urge you all to stop playing with reproductive health care as if its your own political puppet.
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Alexa Garcia-Ditta
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Schwertner hit the table so hard w/ his gavel demanding that our intern stop talking during her testimony that he broke the glass. #txlege
5:13 PM - 15 Feb 2017
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Temper temper Senator.
VaBchTgerLily
(231 posts)sheshe2
(83,771 posts)Welcome to DU, VaBch.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,939 posts)Would be a shame if the bastid popped an aneurysm out of anger. A real shame.
CrispyQ
(36,468 posts)sheshe2
(83,771 posts)That pic of him, looks like he is holding on to his hand...I hope he has glass shards embedded in his hand. Would serve him right.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I hope he feels like a huge fool, but I doubt he has the ability.
sheshe2
(83,771 posts)must of scared the shit out of him, vampires loath their reflections.
Rex
(65,616 posts)is in the toilet and he should retire.
Let me just run in and flush it now.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Let's flush this huge turd!
sheshe2
(83,771 posts)DO NOT call Rotor Rooter if it causes a clog. We will just let him stew in his own juices.
longship
(40,416 posts)(Since we're using IHOP metaphors.)
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)That clown is dangerous.
Alpeduez21
(1,751 posts)causing a commotion
Talkin' 'bout a motion
because you are so awesome
sheshe2
(83,771 posts)Welcome to DU.