Texas Senator Shatters Table Trying to Silence Woman Testifying Against Anti-Abortion Bill

[BeckyDem]

Please try and help your sisters wherever they may live, these conservatives are unrelenting .


Posted By Alex Zielinski on Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:30 PM

It only took state Sen. Charles Schwertner ten minutes of listening to testimony against anti-abortion bills before he broke a table.

Schwertner, the Republican chair of the Texas Senate's Committee on Health and Human Services, spent Wednesday morning introducing and defending a bill that would ban most women from donating fetal tissue from their abortions to science. His legislation was bundled with two other anti-abortion bills — one to throw out the safest abortion procedure for second-trimester pregnancies, the other to mandate all abortion remains are buried and cremated — penned by two other GOP senators, Charles Perry and Don Huffines.

After discussing the bills amongst themselves, the committee opened the floor to three hours of public testimony — which started with a bang.

"I'm here on behalf of all absent women, families and doctors across the state whose lives will be negatively impacted by this bill," began the testimony of Maggie Hennessy, a UT student and intern with NARAL Pro-Choice Texas. She was the fourth person to speak (of more than 50).

http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/02/16/texas-senator-shatters-table-trying-to-silence-woman-testifying-against-anti-abortion-bill

[Lucinda]

1. Will have to read this later... but kicking it for you now...

[BeckyDem]

2. Thank you!

I received this info from my daughter who lives in Texas, I was horrified.

[Ilsa]

3. We need more women in govt,

We need to be the majority. Enough of this shit from men making laws that have no direct impact on them, and trying to silence those who would speak against them.

[BeckyDem]

5. When I read this I felt as if I was in a time machine, going backwards.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Video of the testimony that caused the idiot to lose his mind

at this link - http://www.onenewspage.co.uk/video/20170217/6876481/Sen-Schwertner-Cracked-Glass-Table-With-Gavel-To.htm

Picture of the result -

[BeckyDem]

7. Thanks for highlighting it for the thread. Can you believe the rage? Astonishing.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. And that poor young woman was trying to get her remarks on the record

as fast as she could knowing they were probably going to interrupt her regardless.

[BeckyDem]

16. Exactly.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. A bit unhinged is he?

[BumRushDaShow]

19. He has that typical GOP souless dead stare. nt

[etherealtruth]

6. this is unreal

[BeckyDem]

8. It should be, but here we are. It's disturbing how backward it all is.

[etherealtruth]

9. How did we go so far backward in such a relatively short amount of time?

[BeckyDem]

14. I'm a Mom of a 30 year old daughter. I think we saw the erosion of our rights with the Moral

Majority years ago, it picked up traction and its been down hill in many ways since then.
Religious fundamentalism is worse now, look at Pence, he scares me.

[etherealtruth]

21. Pence terrifies me, too.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. This has actually been going on for some time in states controlled by the GOP

Now with the election of Drumpf, they are all going into overdrive.

Here in PA, our (thankfully) Democratic governor is planning to veto similar nonsense that will likely pass in our GOP legislature (already approved by the state House). We have to make sure that we can get him re-elected next year so that he is in office during the 2020 census (re: impact on redistricting).

[BeckyDem]

20. Good to hear. We all have to keep vigilant.

[AngryAmish]

11. We Have Video!!!!

[LaydeeBug]

12. If this were a democrat the pic of the broken table would have been the pic

But....ah....well.....liberal media propping up the KGOPB again.

[BeckyDem]

15. So true.

[ck4829]

17. Isn't that the kind of stuff domestic abusers do?

[BeckyDem]

22. That was my impression, out of control behavior.

[pkdu]

23. K&R . nt

[niyad]

24. they don't even try to hide their hatred anymore.

[BeckyDem]

25. It is raw, yes. Thanks for kicking this.