Jessica Valenti
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
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And they're being pushed by this really radical group, this sect of the anti-abortion movement called abortion abolitionists, which is just...
problematic for all sorts of reasons, but they are gaining power, like culturally, politically, they have a really unfortunately good political ground game.
They have candidates who are running for office.
They have folks who have been elected
to office, and so this is, again, it's not an unusual bit of legislation anymore.
We're seeing it every legislative session, and every legislative session these bills are getting more co-sponsors.
Yeah, no, they are moving to the next step.
This is something that I've predicted.
It's something other feminists and abortion rights advocates have warned about, that 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.
There was a bill in South Carolina, I believe, that would punish abortion patients.
Their compromise was to move it from life in prison execution to a couple of years in prison, like two years in prison.
And for the first time, a major national anti-abortion group, Students for Life, endorsed that legislation, right?
So we are really seeing the so-called mainstream anti-abortion movement get on board.
I reported, I think it was a week or two ago,
The Texas Republican Party explicitly publicly praised and posted about on their social media accounts Abolish Abortion Texas, an abolitionist group.
They have abolitionist language in the Republican Party platform.
And so this is happening.
Even if these bills don't get passed right now, they are certainly making moves towards that eventual end.
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