American Taliban "man" breaks a glass table trying to silence pro-choice testimony...

[CousinIT]

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Our American Taliban won't be happy until and unless all women are sexual & reproductive SLAVES: https://www.thenation.com/article/reproductive-rights-and-long-hand-slave-breeding/

Sen. Schwertner appeared to reserve his irritation at those going over the allotted testimony time for Hennessy. Other testimonies went over time, but the senator did not use his gavel and even allowed the president of Texas Alliance for Life to extend his statement.

A spokesperson for Sen. Schwertner told Cosmopolitan that the senator hit the table accidentally because he was simply trying “to run an orderly meeting,” and, “the reality is he’s got a little gavel block, and he hit the glass instead of hitting the sounder.”

In a statement sent to The Huffington Post, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas Heather Busby reflected on the hearing and what the three anti-abortion bills, if passed, would mean for women.

Today’s hearing revealed once again that anti-choice politicians continue to rely on ideologues and scare tactics to peddle these baseless measures. The hearing also revealed no regard for the dignity of pregnant Texans or the legal system. All of the bills heard by the Senate today are thinly veiled attempts to ban abortion. Banning the safest methods of abortion does nothing to enhance patients’ health and safety; in fact, banning abortion methods puts people’s lives at risk. There is no room for politicians in the exam room.

“I don’t know why he banged [the gavel] so aggressively,” Hennessy told Cosmo. “He just clearly was rattled by it... I’m not scared by it. It encourages me to keep fighting this good fight.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/state-senator-cracked-a-table-to-stop-a-womans-pro-choice-testimony_us_58a71e06e4b037d17d2737eb

[frazzled]

1. If "breaking the glass ceiling" refers to equality for women

Then "breaking the glass table" can now be used to describe any efforts to suppress women's rights.

[CrispyQ]

2. Trying to silence the uppity woman.

You nailed it with the slave comment. I don't understand why the pro-choice movement doesn't use this argument more.

Forced Labor, Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion
Andrew Koppelman

http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=facultyworkingpapers

snip...

I. The basic argument

The Thirteenth Amendment reads as follows:
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction.
2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.

My claim is that the amendment is violated by laws that prohibit abortion. When
women are compelled to carry and bear children, they are subjected to "involuntary
servitude" in violation of the amendment. Abortion prohibitions violate the
Amendment's guarantee of personal liberty, because forced pregnancy and childbirth, by
compelling the woman to serve the fetus, creates "that control by which the personal
service of one man [sic] is disposed of or coerced for another's benefit which is the
essence of involuntary servitude."6

[CousinIT]

4. I agree. The Pro-choice movement should be putting that argument forth

with a VENGEANCE. EVERY TIME these control freaks snap their legislative whips at women.

[Initech]

3. Fuck pro lifers!

[PoiBoy]

5. Fuck anti choicers...

there is nothing pro life about this people...