When a special interest group tried to defeat Representative Senfronia Thompson’s insurance bill this session with a flier condemning the “nanny state” and showing an infant suckling a woman’s breast, Ms. Thompson could not contain her outrage. In one of her famously impassioned speeches — between threats to bloody noses — she blasted what she called the objectification, disrespect and “violence” toward women, slamming her fist so hard against the lectern that her bracelet shattered.