morning nashville tennessee is the epicenter of an explosive intersection gun violence, racial tension, and seemingly insurmountable political division two black former tennessee lawmakers are now expelled from the state house for taking part in a gun reform protest last week deemed disorderly by the republican super majority. shouts of shame ringing out from protesters crowding in the halls of the capital during those closely watched votes. both men speaking out on the house floor emotional and defiant. we are still here and we will never quit we called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy a third colleague facing expulsion who is white surviving by a single vote i ll be joined in moments by that third member, state representative gloria johnson who weighed in yesterday about why she thinks she was spared and her black colleagues were not. why do you feel like there was a difference in the outcome between you and your colle
that now holds young people hostage in their own state it criminalizes trusted adults that young people are relying on to help them get access to abortion when they may need to conceal the procedure from their parents and prevent them from leaving the state for care it also goes a step further, if you know the idaho attorney general has also issued a legal opinion claiming that health providers can t provide patients referral out of state, and so really, i mean, blatantly unconstitutional in our opinion, right, denial the ability of providers to use their own voice and free speech to give the guidance and care their patients need so the disruption that we will see because of the idaho law the fear and chaos it will create for not only patients but also providers. it s really just shameful and alarming. is there any kind of legal response that planned parenthood is preparing yeah, planned parenthood and