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Eugene

(62,623 posts)
Mon Apr 1, 2024, 06:03 PM Apr 2024

Texas GOP Wants a Horrifying Punishment for Abortion, IVF Patients

Earlier DU thread: Gavin Newsom tweet re: texas republicans wanting death penalty for abortion and IVF

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Source: New Republic

Texas GOP Wants a Horrifying Punishment for Abortion, IVF Patients

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Mon, April 1, 2024 at 11:28 AM EDT·2 min read

The anti-abortion movement in Texas has adjusted course—and it’s headed toward putting abortion and IVF patients on death row.

Leaked video footage of an Abolish Abortion Texas function shows Hood County Republican Party officials in attendance at a meeting supporting the death penalty for women and minors who seek out either procedure. The meeting took place in January, but the video was only shared to X (formerly Twitter) last week.

“There’s no difference in the value of born people and preborn people,” said Paul Brown, the group’s director. “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.”

This is false. Emergency contraception such as Plan B prevents fertilization from occurring.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/texas-gop-wants-horrifying-punishment-152830665.html



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Texas GOP Wants a Horrifying Punishment for Abortion, IVF Patients (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2024 OP
Isn't it amazing how cells so small slightlv Apr 2024 #1
So, murdering people already here is less bad PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2024 #2
I couldn't watch very much of it. ShazzieB Apr 2024 #3
Agree 100% Kath2 Apr 2024 #4

slightlv

(4,225 posts)
1. Isn't it amazing how cells so small
Mon Apr 1, 2024, 07:22 PM
Apr 2024

you need a microscope to see them are FULL GROWN people! Talk about nano-technology!!! /snark Damn, I hate these people.

ShazzieB

(18,444 posts)
3. I couldn't watch very much of it.
Mon Apr 1, 2024, 11:55 PM
Apr 2024

I debated watching at all, but my curiosity got the better of me. I think I lasted about a minute before noping out of there.

The views he was describing were nothing new to me, but listening to a man (a fucking MAN!) pontificate so self-righteously about wanting to punish women and girls for having the audacity to control their own bodies and reproductive options was just too much.

People like him, whatever their gender, make me sick.

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