@VictorianPrude at the Texas Senate Committee Meeting Re: SB1 (The Abortion Bill)

Thank you chair committee my name is Sarah Slamen,

i'm a constituent of senator Whitmeyer,

i'm here to testify against SB-1

because im tired of republican primary politics, misogyny, and greed

dominating the state i was born, raised and schooled in.

And yknow i had some really eloquent remarks written out,

but you guys have just worn me down all day

with all this terrible science, and gladhanding,

and to be frank, i get to move to New York next month,

so i dont have to live in fear of you Texas legislators anymore,

and what youre gonna do to my education system or my healthcare system,

cause im going to a state that doesnt kill its own inmates --

thats how pro-life it is up there.

I will thank you though, first,

it was destiny that you would discriminate against us

and try to force your way inside the bodies of Texas women.

Thank you! For finally working against us women so publicly,

and not in the shadows like youre used to.

Thank you for every single bad press conference with your bad information.

Thank you for every hateful statement

degrading women and girls to sex objects and brood mares and bald eagles and leather wallets,

like your eloquent pro-life supporters have done today.

Thank you, for being you, Texas legislature.

You have radicalized hundreds of thousands of us,

and no matter what you do for the next 22 days,

women and their allies are coming for you.

Let's start down the line.

Senator Campbell, you're an opthamologist,

so i wont be making you the expert on reproductive health.

We can give you all the children with clamydia and herpes in their eyes,

since we dont have sex ed in this state.

And Senator Hagarth?

You're about as helpful... [interruptions from the bench ]

Excuse me, this is my government ma'am.

I will judge you. I will judge you, ma'am.

Is this counting against my time?

[ chair ] Yes it is.

This senator talking against me?

OK, well i will just go ahead and talk over her,

and this is how big of a fraud i knew you were for being so proud of these proceedings all night,

it's a low bar that you hold yourself to

that you simply allowed us to speak,

and i will speak against an opthamologist who says...

Everyone on the internet can see what you're doing right now.

This is a farce.

The Texas legislators are a bunch of liars who hate women.

These men are paid by all of you...

[ cannot hear this part as she is being dragged out by officers ]

...so that they can tell us what to do with the inside of our bodies...