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Texas Republicans Propose Horrific Punishment for Abortion Patients
The Lone Star State GOP wants to make abortion punishable by death.
Texas Republicans Propose Horrific Punishment for Abortion Patients
Ellie Quinlan HoughtalingThu, May 30, 2024 at 12:06 PM EDT·2 min read
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Having some of the nation’s strictest abortion laws isn’t enough for the Texas GOP. Instead, Republicans in the Lone Star State are actually considering the death penalty as punishment for people who undergo the medical procedure.
A new platform proposed at the state’s GOP convention on Saturday included calls for legislation that would transform the fetal personhood ideology into law, which would effectively categorize any person receiving an abortion at any stage as a murderer.
The 50-page document claims that “abortion is not healthcare, it is homicide” and calls for lawmakers to extend “equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization.”
Not everyone in attendance was in support of the endeavor, however. Harris County Precinct 178 Chair Gilda Bayegan volunteered to speak at the event, calling on her party to drop its anti-abortion platforms on the basis that the state’s draconian restrictions to the medical procedure were alienating its base.
“I’m up here begging you not to make it one of our priorities,” Bayegan said.
Her party clearly did not listen. The GOP wish list is a revealing glimpse into which direction they are headed, but it wasn’t the first clue. In January, Hood County Republican Party officials were spotted attending an Abolish Abortion Texas function in which the death penalty was discussed as a possible repercussion for women and minors who seek out not just abortion but also in vitro fertilization treatments.
“There’s no difference in the value of born people and preborn people,” Paul Brown, the group’s director, said in leaked video footage, revealing the philosophy behind the extreme measures. “In short, abortion is murder. And that’s starting at the moment of fertilization even prior to implantation. So that Plan B pill, or what’s known as the morning-after pill, which is used to terminate or kill a baby prior to implantation, that is an abortion.”
(Plan B does not “kill” an embryo, as Brown claims. Instead, it prevents fertilization from occurring in the first place.)
Texas isn’t the only state to consider classifying the lifesaving medical procedure as homicide or even sentencing people to death for seeking the treatment. Republican lawmakers in Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina introduced similar legislation last year. All of those bills were defeated, with even some state Republicans deeming them too extreme.
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@CAKitchener
Breaking: An important post-Dobbs lawsuit, filed by a TX ex husband against three women who allegedly helped his ex wife obtain abortion pills, has been dismissed. This was a big test case in the antiabortion fight against abortion pills — and it went nowhere.
2/11
@amy_bresnen
Mitchell is a despicable person
3/11
@HalMarshall2309
I read this as the plaintiff abandoning his suit, not that a court ordered him to do so.
4/11
@MoistenedTart
Love to see it!
5/11
@Corndog
Plaintiff should have to pay for lawyers fees for defendants for bringing a frivolous lawsuit with intent to injure. IANAL but that should be a thing if it isn’t!
6/11
@lemmeb_great
Glad she isn't stuck with a baby by this weirdo. I know he's somewhere punching the air that she's free from him. And thank you to those three women. They are heroes.
7/11
@Resist4everBlue
8/11
@Lalura
9/11
@RennieThomas4
Do we know why he dropped the case?
10/11
@ritamosquita51
He dropped it.
11/11
@bsines
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@CAKitchener
Breaking: An important post-Dobbs lawsuit, filed by a TX ex husband against three women who allegedly helped his ex wife obtain abortion pills, has been dismissed. This was a big test case in the antiabortion fight against abortion pills — and it went nowhere.
2/11
@amy_bresnen
Mitchell is a despicable person
3/11
@HalMarshall2309
I read this as the plaintiff abandoning his suit, not that a court ordered him to do so.
4/11
@MoistenedTart
Love to see it!
5/11
@Corndog
Plaintiff should have to pay for lawyers fees for defendants for bringing a frivolous lawsuit with intent to injure. IANAL but that should be a thing if it isn’t!
6/11
@lemmeb_great
Glad she isn't stuck with a baby by this weirdo. I know he's somewhere punching the air that she's free from him. And thank you to those three women. They are heroes.
7/11
@Resist4everBlue
8/11
@Lalura
9/11
@RennieThomas4
Do we know why he dropped the case?
10/11
@ritamosquita51
He dropped it.
11/11
@bsines
Details from Bloomberg Law News
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
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