Hennessy continued, saying “I urge you all to stop playing with women’s health care as if it is your own political puppet,” before Schwertner hit his gavel with a loud crack.
Alexa Garcia-Ditta, communications and policy initiatives director at NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, took a picture of the broken table following the hearing and tweeted it out, writing that “Schwertner hit the table so hard w/ his gavel demanding that our intern stop talking during her testimony that he broke the glass.”
The Express-News reported that Schwertner acknowledged he may have overexerted, saying, “I may need to dial it back to just one bowl of Wheaties in the morning.”
You can watch the clip of Schwertner breaking the table on Jezebel, and the video of the full hearing here.
Read more on the ongoing debate surrounding abortion in the Texas Senate here.
Schwertner hit the table so hard w/ his gavel demanding that our intern stop talking during her testimony that he broke the glass. #txlege pic.twitter.com/2eZmOz0Cq5
— Alexa Garcia-Ditta (@agarciaditta) February 15, 2017
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