Jessica Valenti
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they are really very proactively trying to shift that Overton window and get people used to the idea that it is okay to punish abortion patients.
If they can't do it with life in prison or the death penalty right away, they'll try to figure out another way to do it.
No, they are moving to the next step.
Sure, yeah, there's a lot going on there.
It, as you said, would classify abortion as murder
in the criminal code, not just for abortion providers, but for abortion patients.
In every state that has an abortion ban, they generally prohibit the prosecution of abortion patients.
This would allow the prosecution of abortion patients.
The way that they define abortion and life would make it questionable on birth control and whether certain forms of birth control like IUDs and the morning after pill would be considered abortions.
And therefore punishable with life in prison.
And then there's a really interesting is not the right word, but a really troubling section that allows for the use of deadly force in defense of a fetus embryo fertilized egg, meaning you could.
kill an abortion provider and that would be legally justified.
And the language, as if that wasn't bad enough, the language is so broad that you could also make the argument that killing someone who is driving a person
to an abortion clinic, who is lending them money is being done in defense of a fetus.
And so it's pretty much about as extreme as you can get, but I would just say, unfortunately, we're seeing a real rise in bills like this, right?
Like they're no longer anomalies.
I mean, pretty much every anti-abortion state has has seen a bill like this.
I think at last count it was over a dozen.
They're called equal protection bills because the idea is that fetuses, embryos, fertilized eggs,
deserve the same level of protection in the state constitution as a human being.
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