GOP Texas lawmaker introduces bill to allow death penalty for women who have abortions

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

A Republican lawmaker in Texas has introduced a bill that would allow the death penalty for women who have abortions.

"Today, I filed HB 3326 to Abolish Abortion in Texas," Texas State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R) said on Twitter.

"The bill will end the discriminatory practice of terminating the life of innocent children, and will guarantee the equal protection of the laws to all Texans, no matter how small," he said

Link to tweet

Under HB 3326, a person who has an abortion or performs an abortion could be charged with assault or homicide, which is punishable by death, the Texas Tribune reported.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-texas-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-allow-death-penalty-for-women-who-have-abortions/ar-BB1eqcIB?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

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Republicans trying to see who can be the bigger asshole.

[leftieNanner]

1. They are eyeing SCOTUS

And figure they might have a chance to pass some of these hideous laws with Amy, Neil, Brett, Clarence, and Sam's blessing.

Same with all of these other "Neanderthal" states.

Damn.

[Mr.Bill]

32. I call it

taking the new SCOTUS out for a test drive.

[oldsoftie]

66. I think these fools are going to be disappointed when these laws reach the SCOTUS.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Sounds like a publicity stunt.

Moron owns a financial services company.

[TomSlick]

5. I wouldn't go betting on that.

These true believers are deadly serious - quite literally. I'd expect this bill to have traction. If you accept these folk's premise that abortion is murder, the potential for a capital sentence is quite predictable.

Now I'm worried that one of our geniuses in the Arkansas General Assembly will introduce a similar bill - which would likely pass. The bill just signed by the Arkansas Governor makes performing an abortion a 10-year offense. The difference between a 10-year offense and a capital offense is one only of degree.

[Kid Berwyn]

47. You are correct. That is their aim.

As in their conspiracy to prevent voters casting ballots across the nation, I don’t believe those conspiring to limit women’s reproductive rights will succeed. We Democrats will expand the Supreme Court, if need be.

Still, as long as there is news coverage, operators like Slaton know how to “leverage” a situation.

[Escurumbele]

56. I don't believe they are "true believers", people who truly appreciate life do not start wars

Anyone who claims to appreciate life would never accept going to war because if we want to preserve life there is no other place where more lives are lost than in a war. They would have never supported lynching, or cops killing innocent people, they would never promote violence, etc.

I don't believe any of these people have true ideals and least of all principles. They act according to what may move their agenda forward, and I would bet that many republicans have had their mistresses abort to avoid bad press.

They pander to religious people but their actions are the opposite of what religion calls for true believers to do, their actions are exactly what Christ fought against, they are not true believers, they just know that most religious people a gullible and will believe almost anything that is supported by religious figures. When you accept you must believe fantasies because of faith, you open yourself to believe almost anything.

They are all hypocrites, and they will change their tune to wherever they wind blows. I don't believe any of them. The only thing I believe is true in their character is racism and greed, all negative character attributes, but they have none that religion would be proud of.

Just think of what this guy is proposing...Kill a woman for aborting a child...where is the "all life is precious", why not maybe come up with an education program for someone who aborts a child? No, no...KILL HER! How much hypocrisy is in that bill...

[TomSlick]

70. The obvious fact that they are hypocrites does not change the fact that they are true believers.

The anti-choice base is fervently opposed to abortion as a result of their religious convictions - convictions they feel obliged to force on the rest of us.

Their religious fervor is what makes them so completely unwilling to discuss the issue. It is also what would make many of them willing to execute women to stop abortions. As a matter of religious conviction, they are convinced that abortion is murder and they support the execution of murderers.

The fact that we disagree with them does not change the basis for their position. We must understand these people to oppose them.

[riversedge]

3. gods!!! help us.

[area51]

4. "We're 'pro-life' here; so we want to kill women who have abortions."

[FlyingPiggy]

6. 1000000+

[AZ8theist]

17. And NEXT? DEATH PENALTY for women who have miscarriages...

FUCKING NAZI SCUM.

MY DISGUST AND HATRED OF FUCKING REPUKES HAS NO END.

[azureblue]

67. then add a line tp the bill

The guy who got her pregnant will also be killed. Women don't get PG all by themselves you know. A fact that the GOP likes to ignore.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Oh, so now they want to pretend abortion is illegal 'discrimination' against tiny, tiny people

Gimme a break.

What a fucking prick.

I notice he's never needed to have one, nor will he ever.

Nor will any woman who'd willingly sleep with him.

How convenient.

[ShazzieB]

13. They've been pushing that idea for a while.

At least I know I've heard it before.

He really is a fucking prick. He and all his ilk.

[thenelm1]

22. Prick pretty much defines being a Repub, yes? n/t

[raising2moredems]

42. That "discrimination" is acceptable to them

Once no longer a fetus and not available for sale, fine to deprive them of food, medical/dental/vision care, secure housing, utilities, city sewer, safe drinking water, education, and clean air.

[marble falls]

8. Dude's certainly in the running.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. How the hell is that 'equal protection'? Seems like a pretty discriminatory law to me.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Pro-life is a myth.

Pro-life is a myth.

The supposed pro-lifers cared naught when the state of Texas (republican gov, republican Prez) deliberately killed living baby Sun Hudson against the mother's wishes because he was an inconvenience to the state.

It is not a matter of life to the supposed pro-lifers.

It is a matter of control.

[OldBaldy1701E]

57. Exactly!

'You will behave in this way or we will kill you'. Sounds like a decent enough law, doesn't it?

[mzmolly]

11. He's probably opposed to the 'tyranny' of wearing a mask

though.

[Biophilic]

12. This is so wrong on so many levels.

Yet, I could almost forgive their misguided beliefs if they worked half as hard at providing birth control, sex education, pre-natal care, child care and support for young children as they do for abortion. Since they don't, it is just plain evil as a flat out war on women.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. LOL, Love the "equal protection of the laws" execution part.

Does that mean the Sire of these abortions will also be executed?

That's equality, isn't it?

[Comfortably_Numb]

15. How about keeping the lights on so people don't freeze to death fuckface.

That would really be pro life. Fuck I hate this state.

[musette_sf]

16. Children have already been born.

A fetus is not innocent as it lacks the capacity. If a pregnancy kills a woman, the fetus isn't guilty.

And rights accrue AT BIRTH.

This bastard is longing for some more obscene and depraved "science" experiments in Texas like the macabre tragedy of Marlise Muñoz, whose family was forced to have her dead body placed on "life support" for TWO MONTHS.

Doctors informed Munoz and Marlise's parents, Lynne and Ernest Machado, that the hospital wasn't going to disconnect Marlise from the ventilator. Texas law prohibited it because she was pregnant.

The Texas Advance Directives Act states, "A doctor may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment from a pregnant patient."

Munoz and his wife's parents told the hospital that Marlise, herself a veteran paramedic, had made it clear to everyone she didn't want to be kept alive by machines under any circumstances. The doctors and the hospital explained that it didn't matter what Marlise or her husband or anyone else wanted — their hands were tied. She would stay on the ventilator until her 14-week-old fetus was delivered or died.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/01/28/267759687/the-strange-case-of-marlise-munoz-and-john-peter-smith-hospital

[AllaN01Bear]

18. they keep pushing this nonsense on us and the courts say no.

and how does this bring down the deficit in their state . does nothing. they keep whining about gouberment intrusion, this is a biggy folks .

[Hekate]

27. Every time one of these bills is actually put to the voters, it fails. But voters don't make laws...

And legislatures all over the country keep chipping away at abortion rights, pushed on by fanatics.

No coincidence that Jim Crow laws are also trying to make a big comeback, imo. No coincidence at all.

[Lithos]

19. Anti-mask Baptist Clergyman

Hard Right, masculine Jeezus conservative.

L-

[ashredux]

20. It's just to get publicity, and it's a sick way of doing it

It’s just to get publicity, and it’s a sick way of doing it

[Make7]

21. During the election he said Covid-19 mask mandates and business shutdowns were Executive overreach.

So, if saving lives isn't the objective....

[Xipe Totec]

23. If he just cut his balls off, there wouldn't be a problem.

No pregnancies, no abortions.

[niyad]

24. And THE WAR ON WOMEN continues apace.

[barbtries]

25. well that's gonna be a non-starter.

wtf.

it's tiresome.

[kimbutgar]

26. They are going to stir up a hornets nests if they proceed

Don’t piss off women gop. .......but please proceed.

[jmowreader]

28. "Equal protection," my ass

This law turns women into chattel slaves from the time they report a positive pregnancy test until they deliver a live baby. And let me guess: miscarriages will be classified as illegal abortions.

[JoeOtterbein]

29. Insane and...

...Evil.

[Judi Lynn]

39. I think it shows on his face:

[JoeOtterbein]

51. Yes! And also...

...on his chest!

[badboy67]

30. Christian Sharia Law, nothing less than that.

[SCantiGOP]

31. Nothing scarier in politics

Than someone who is willing to kill based on their religious views.

[BigmanPigman]

33. HA! Is this The Onion?

It's too stupid to be serious.

[Ferrets are Cool]

34. I'm gonna be a real asshole and say this....

Ok, we can pass that right after we pass a law that charges men who jerk off with murder. All those tiny little sperm have a right to live, ya know.

Gods, I hate repuq's.

[JoeOtterbein]

36. I know this is a bit off topic but are not most male Ferrets in the USA...

..."fixed" soon after birth to prevent them from breeding in the wild?

If so, should we consider the same punishment for male (GOP) Humans as well?

[Ferrets are Cool]

61. Yes they are. And, unfortunately, because the company that sells them to pet stores

"fixes" them too early in life so they can be sold sooner. This cuts about 3-4 years off their lives. We NEVER buy ferrets, but instead we rescue them from people who do not understand how high maintenance they are. We have rescued over 30 ferrets in the last 20 years.

As far as your suggestion, it is a nice fantasy. Most of them (99.9%) do not deserve to leave progeny in this world.

Hope you have a GREAT day!!

[JoeOtterbein]

68. Wow!

We have only rescued four little guys, no Jills, and I thought that was a lot! Our kitty rescues love their little friends too.

Have a fun day!

[wnylib]

45. Don't forget women dumping an egg

every month. To avoid killing those eggs, a woman would need to stay perpetually pregnant.

[Ferrets are Cool]

73. Yeah, I thought about that after I hit send.

Repuq's are ludicrous.

[Sane1]

35. How about the death penalty for anti maskers?

This law should apply to anti maskers too!!!

[dchill]

37. Christian love - or death cult fantasy?

[LiberalFighter]

38. How about the death penalty for lawmakers proposing such legislation?

[Killer of Radio Star]

40. American Idiot

From 1:13

[Judi Lynn]

41. Any woman who refuses to "drop 'em" when told should be executed.

If that doesn't satisfy those who seek revenge, they will move on to consider torture, then execution.

[Fiendish Thingy]

43. Good...this will bring the mother of all backlashes. Nt

[OldBaldy1701E]

58. I know what I wish that backlash would be

Every single female in the state of Texas should immediately stop offering anything to their male counterparts. Trust me, most of them will stop being idiots once that 'door' slams shut...

[flying_wahini]

44. So sick of these morons in Govt trying to legislate morality.

That what they preach when they haven’t anything in their heads.

[William Gustafson]

46. another way to stop abortions.....

"I donna know what dude needs to hear this but a vasectomy prevents abortion If you are so worry about it"

[Bayard]

48. The right to abortion is a federal law

How do these guys figure a way around that?

[Warpy]

49. Proposed by a male, of course

They're all trying to out asshole each other now that Dumdum stacked the USSC. I sincerely doubt they're going to get too far with this one, going all kill crazy on women looks bad, although letting them die of illegal abortion is peachy keen.

Even Amy Covid Barrett would have problems with this one.

I think Roe will be overturned, putting us back into a country of slave states and free states. It will work OK for women who can afford to travel until the slave states start trying to punish women who go out of state for legal abortion and ER docs start to complain about the butchery happening via illegal abortion.

NM awaits. We finally got the old antiabortion law off the books.

[packman]

50. How about the death penalty for the male

that impregnated the woman who wants/needs an abort?

[Piasladic]

52. I understand it's just a bill

but OH MY GOD. Are we really going back? I am sickened and frightened.

[Turbineguy]

53. The good part: No torture

Unless I missed that part.

[PrinceHakeem]

54. How pro life of them

[The Jungle 1]

55. Jury nullification is my answer.

[SarcasticSatyr]

59. What about miscarriages?

Will every miscarriage have to be investigated, to make sure the woman didn't do anything that might have contributed to the miscarriage? Seems like a weird, slippery slope ..

[marie999]

63. Miscarriages are an act of God, so it has to be executed.

[Lars39]

60. He needs his dick slammed in a door. Repeatedly

[Paladin]

62. As if Republicans never arrange for abortions. (nt)

[The Jungle 1]

64. Jury nullification is the peoples response.

If you can't get 12 people to agree you lose the case.
Jury nullification is a very important check of the balance.

[BelieveCassandra]

65. Hope no one goes to his Twitter and FB accounts to ask detailed questions about HB 3326 impacts

on sex, birth control, and monitoring periods (just so the state of Texas knows about those tiny, tiny people).

Those kinds of questions usually make conservative, male, Bibleists very uncomfortable.

[IzzaNuDay]

69. So how are they going to go after Mother Nature?

She's the one that does the most abortions!

[BlueWavePsych]

71. Effing Christian Shariya Law

The Conservative Crusade For Christian Sharia Law

The question isn’t: Will conservatives push to enact laws based on the Bible? We are way beyond that. The real questions are: 1. How many more of these laws do they want to impose? And, 2. What will our nation look like if their crusade is successful to bring America’s laws into agreement with “God’s law”?

To some on the right, America is a “Christian nation”—like Saudi Arabia is a Muslim nation—meaning that our nation’s laws should be based on their religious text. These forces aren’t moved by Thomas Jefferson’s famous letter in which he spoke of the need to create, "a wall of separation between church and state.” Nor will they be swayed by citing Ronald Reagan’s words, "Church and state are, and must remain, separate.”

And in the past few years, we have seen pro-life Christian groups successfully lobby State legislatures to restrict access to abortions. They have also raised religious, not public policy, objections to the government funding birth control.

But here’s the alarming thing: These views are no longer the fringe of American politics. They are increasingly become mainstream conservative fare.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-conservative-crusade-for-christian-sharia-law

[kimbutgar]

72. The woman repukes need to decide if they want to live in a statewhere they can no longer make their

Own decisions ove ranker bodies and become handmaidens tale victims.

[Crowman2009]

74. Good news is that he's being ratioted like crazy on Twitter.

[Greybnk48]

75. Men like this used to be considered mentally ill and dangerous.

Maybe he should be castrated?

[Buckeyeblue]

76. It would be a death penalty for the Texas economy

I think a lot of corporations would pull out of Texas. Young, talented employees are not going to relocate to a state with such draconian laws.

[jmowreader]

78. You know what's next

They will attempt to amend Article I, Sections 9 and 10 of the Constitution to allow ex post facto laws. Once this happens, they will be free to go after anyone who ever had an abortion.

Also, I checked into Mr. Slaton. He is a minister. He also looks like the kind of guy who you think, "how did this man ever get a kid?"