texas GOP votes to make abortion punishable by death penalty

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/texas ... MAIL_ID%5D
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/09 ... h-penalty/
I figured it would end up like this. it doesn't have to make sense, it's just their policy. what part of "thou shalt not kill" do these pols contest? how is murdering the mothers under cover of law going to undo their aborting? does anybody with two neurons to rub together think this will actually serve as a deterrent? does anybody with half a brain thinks this will convert the sexually active into prudes? does anybody actually NOT believe that this is the sole purpose of the forced birthers? I for one will NEVER BELIEVE FOR A PICOSECOND that the forced birthers actually care more about the unborn than they do about punishing sexually active women. if the forced birthers did actually give a good god-damn about women they'd be making a lot more noise about misbehaving men. but they are conspicuously silent about that.

This article is 3 years old, and Rep. Slaton was expelled from the Legislature for sexual misconduct.

Unfortunately, there is also a state senator named Bryan Hughes, still in the state Senate, who has co-authored tons of puritanical laws, not just ones regarding abortion.

what worse laws did he propose?

Disappointingly, the correct translation is apparently "thou shalt not murder," meaning that killing is fine as long as it's legal. Even if it's the Third Reich making the laws. It's one reason why I prefer humanist ethics to scripture.

Things do seem to be moving horribly towards the religious right in the USA don't they?

Would seem so.....have heard things in the last few weeks , in person from Riligious right speakers ,and in the past year. Aswell that are equally scarey regarding total major dismissal of human Rights within private groups meetingsand even Church groups meetings... and suggestive not so humourous thoughts about this same issue.((Am personally waiting for them to formally re- institute slavery )). To give Americans an idea of what these people are truley headed towards . ......imho.

The thing is the US is becoming *less* religious, and these people know it.

They think if we return to the societal norms of the 1950s, and life becomes an episode of Leave it to Beaver or Father Knows Best, all of America's problems will go away. The world where white, straight Christian men called the shots, and everybody else was expected to know their place.

Here is a list of things the right blames for America's problems:

Communism

The Pill

Teaching evolution

LGBT+ people and tolerance thereof

Feminism/women's lib

Taking prayer out of public schools

Taking the Pledge of Allegiance out of schools

Abortion

Religions other than Christianity

Atheists/agnostics/secularists

Rock music

Skateboards

Punk rock

Dungeons and Dragons

Harry Potter

The Democratic Party and similar parties abroad

Abolishing the Hays Code for movies

Allowing the word "pregnant" to be used on TV (you can't make this sh*t up)

Elvis swinging his hips.

Women having careers of their own.

The Civil Rights Act

Antifa

Rap music

"Open borders"

George Soros

...the list goes on.

Personally I'd prefer banning abortion to be punishable by death.

This is entirely just wrong ...!

Antichoicers ruin lives and seek to use the legal system to harm people who need abortion service. People who actively seek to deny others the right to reproductive care deserve to be punished. People who use the law to do so need to be shown their behaviour will not be tolerated.

Glad to think the Texas gop has backed off ,I think.....if not they need to be banned.!

POLITIFACT, 2022-05-07: A Texas GOP lawmaker recently introduced a bill that would allow the death penalty for women who have an abortion.

• State Rep. Bryan Slaton, member of the Texas House of Representatives, introduced the bill in March 2021, not May 2022.

• That bill stipulated that it would criminalize abortion as homicide, which is punishable by death.  The bill did not make it out of the committee process.

• Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Slaton has said that he plans to reintroduce the bill in the next legislative session.

The Instagram post was flagged by Facebook, as part of their efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.

Read the complete and unedited article  HERE 

As I said earlier, Rep. Slaton was expelled from Congress.

Just trying to post ALL the relevant facts.

I'm against abortion, but I think that's a little extreme.

I would say that even though this is old, it's still very relevant. You have to realize that once a horrible idea that is even more extreme enters the orbit of the GOP, it seems to eventually become the norm. I think it's because these bills don't come out of nowhere - there are groups that feed the GOP new ideas and they then start proposing these bills in the most extreme states like Texas, Oklahoma, etc. Even when it initially fails, it comes back later and finds more success.

A lot of people interpret extremist GOP bills that are bound to fail on their initial run as "pandering to the base", but I think we shouldn't write them off that easily. We must instead be prepared for these ideas popping up again later. D: