'Abolitionists' Push Legislation to Criminalize All Abortions as Homicide - The American Prospect

[justaprogressive]

Inside a dingy conference room in the North Dakota state house, Texas attorney Bradley Pierce coolly made the case that the 14th Amendment and biblical scripture require the state to charge anyone who obtains an abortion with murder.

When asked by North Dakota Representative Jayme Davis (D–9) about whether the overtly Christian basis of his reasoning disregarded other people’s freedom of religion, Pierce responded with a wry smile and a comment to match. “Well, you know, I think the Aztecs believed it was okay to rip the hearts out of children and offer them as a burnt sacrifice to their gods, and I think that should be illegal.”

Pierce’s testimony in support of HB 1373, a bill that would criminalize all abortions in North Dakota, was one of more than a dozen heard by the state’s House Human Services Committee on February 5. Other supporters taking the podium that morning inside the crowded Pioneer Room included the son of Democratic career diplomat Susan Rice, the co-executive director of a Wisconsin-based network of crisis pregnancy centers, and a “post-abortive” activist from North Dakota.

HB 1373 is not a “typical” anti-abortion bill in post-Roe America. Introduced in January, it would expand the definition of “human being” in the state’s Century Code to include zygotes at “the beginning of biological development at the moment of fertilization” for the explicit purpose of banning all abortions and subjecting anyone who performs or obtains one to criminal punishment. Under this law, anyone who harms a zygote or embryo in North Dakota could be prosecuted for murder or assault, or sued for wrongful death.

https://prospect.org/justice/2025-05-05-abolitionists-push-legislation-criminalize-all-abortion/

[Walleye]

1. Women have been dealing with unwanted pregnancy since before biblical times

These men in these red state legislatures are not going to stop it. They just wanna punish women for anything for being alive.

[valleyrogue]

2. The 1950s ain't coming back, you antiabortion dipshits.

Women will not go back, even if they could. It was a shit era for women.

There is also the nefarious promoting of adoption by these clowns. They want to go back to the era where "unwed mothers" were shamed and gave their babies up right after birth. That ship sailed beginning in the early 1970s and ain't going back, either. Teenage birthrates have plummeted because girls are less likely to be pushed by anxious mothers into "dating" and relationships in middle and high school to marry right out of high school or their early twenties at the latest. Girls are more likely to focus on hobbies, extracurricular school activities, and their studies than "dating." That pisses off the religious right to no end. They want that birthrate back up, and they ain't gonna get it.

These people actually regard women as either virgins or whores because they are considered sexual property of men, not really human at all. I mean, how can anybody say with a straight face a woman's body isn't hers?