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

[TexasTowelie]

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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).

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[gopiscrap]

1. what a fucking, heartless piece of shit

[tenorly]

2. A Republican's idea of shattering the glass ceiling.

Goes to show that when Medicare for All finally does pass, it should cover anger management therapy.

[Doodley]

3. Another Repugnant longing for his good old days when women knew their place and slaves were at hand

[Guilded Lilly]

4. A classic abuser?

[Warpy]

5. Certainly intolerant of the truth

especially when it's spoken by a woman.

He's got a lot of company out there.

[Guilded Lilly]

6. Too much company! Yup. He's quite the symbol of the angry controlling

insecure male who lashes out in the face of strong woman.

The Republican Party is lousy with them.

[angstlessk]

7. He can't control himself, but he wants to control ALL women?

typical hypocritical repug!