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Thank you chair committee my name is Sarah Slamen,
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i'm a constituent of senator Whitmeyer,
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i'm here to testify against SB-1
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because im tired of republican primary politics, misogyny, and greed
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dominating the state i was born, raised and schooled in.
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And yknow i had some really eloquent remarks written out,
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but you guys have just worn me down all day
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with all this terrible science, and gladhanding,
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and to be frank, i get to move to New York next month,
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so i dont have to live in fear of you Texas legislators anymore,
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and what youre gonna do to my education system or my healthcare system,
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cause im going to a state that doesnt kill its own inmates --
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thats how pro-life it is up there.
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I will thank you though, first,
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it was destiny that you would discriminate against us
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and try to force your way inside the bodies of Texas women.
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Thank you! For finally working against us women so publicly,
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and not in the shadows like youre used to.
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Thank you for every single bad press conference with your bad information.
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Thank you for every hateful statement
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degrading women and girls to sex objects and brood mares and bald eagles and leather wallets,
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like your eloquent pro-life supporters have done today.
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Thank you, for being you, Texas legislature.
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You have radicalized hundreds of thousands of us,
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and no matter what you do for the next 22 days,
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women and their allies are coming for you.
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Let's start down the line.
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Senator Campbell, you're an opthamologist,
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so i wont be making you the expert on reproductive health.
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We can give you all the children with clamydia and herpes in their eyes,
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since we dont have sex ed in this state.
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And Senator Hagarth?
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You're about as helpful... [interruptions from the bench ]
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Excuse me, this is my government ma'am.
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I will judge you. I will judge you, ma'am.
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Is this counting against my time?
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[ chair ] Yes it is.
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This senator talking against me?
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OK, well i will just go ahead and talk over her,
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and this is how big of a fraud i knew you were for being so proud of these proceedings all night,
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it's a low bar that you hold yourself to
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that you simply allowed us to speak,
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and i will speak against an opthamologist who says...
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Everyone on the internet can see what you're doing right now.
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This is a farce.
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The Texas legislators are a bunch of liars who hate women.
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These men are paid by all of you...
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[ cannot hear this part as she is being dragged out by officers ]
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...so that they can tell us what to do with the inside of our bodies...