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
Link to tweet
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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. 
