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.@RepKellyCassidy and members of the House's Dobbs working group just spoke on the floor highlighting "a deeply concerning trend" of violence (and the political rhetoric that fuels the flames) against abortion providers and LGBT people. #twill
Cassidy mentions the arson at a Peoria Planned Parenthood Clinic earlier this year and the attempted burning of a Danville abortion clinic last weekend.
She also again brings up state Sen. Neil Anderson, a Quad Cities Republican who "threatened to kick the piss out of anyone he thought shouldn't be in a bathroom with his daughter..."
"...to whoops and cheers from his Republican colleagues that made the chamber sound more like the Jerry Springer show than a legislative body." #twill
Cassidy: "In each of these cases, political speech has been an issue. We have seen attacks on clinics, murders of health care workers, attacks on teachers and students. The list is depressingly endless. Words matter, folks." #twill
"The silence from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle... is deafening. Let us be clear, this is not the time for a gentle wink-and-nudge generic 'we all condemn violence.' This is the time for full-throated rejection of terrorists who use violence as a political tool."
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