Texas GOP holds public hearing on PUTTING WOMEN TO DEATH for obtaining abortions

[yuiyoshida]

A Texas state House committee on Monday night devoted several hours to discussing potentially subjecting women to the death penalty if they obtain abortions.

Apparently seeking to capitalize on a political moment in which states have passed some of the most restrictive anti-choice laws in the country since Roe vs. Wade passed in 1973, the state House Judiciary Committee held a public hearing that stretched into the early morning hours on House Bill 896. The proposed legislation would criminalize abortion in the state without exception and would classify the medical procedure as a homicide—making it possible for women who get abortion care to be executed by the state.exas state House committee on Monday night devoted several hours to discussing potentially subjecting women to the death penalty if they obtain abortions.

Apparently seeking to capitalize on a political moment in which states have passed some of the most restrictive anti-choice laws in the country since Roe vs. Wade passed in 1973, the state House Judiciary Committee held a public hearing that stretched into the early morning hours on House Bill 896. The proposed legislation would criminalize abortion in the state without exception and would classify the medical procedure as a homicide—making it possible for women who get abortion care to be executed by the state.

Republican state Rep. Tony Tinderholt introduced the bill, saying it would make women more “personally responsible.”

The proposal includes a specific attack on Roe vs. Wade, noting that state officials would be required to treat abortion as a crime “regardless of any contrary federal law, executive order, or court decision.”

With opposition even from the anti-choice group Texans for Life and with the committee reportedly reluctant to send the bill to the full House, H.B. 896 is currently unlikely to become law in Texas. But women’s rights advocates expressed shock and outrage that the bill was given the state’s first-ever public hearing on a proposal to classify women as criminals for obtaining abortions.

Supporters of the bill appear to be riding a wave of anti-choice momentum. The hearing was held days after Georgia legislators passed a bill banning abortions after a fetal “heartbeat” can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, when many women don’t know yet that they are pregnant.

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WTF? Rise up sisters...its time to go to work!!

[riversedge]

1. The fact that this is even being discussed in a statehouse is beyond the pale but in Trumps America,

-anything is possible!

[Arkansas Granny]

3. And Trump would support this bill if he thought he would get one more vote by doing so.

[Vinca]

2. How about mandatory vasectomies for whoever impregnated them?

If politicians get to play doctor, that means ALL of us get to play doctor. Women, too. And we say "snip, snip." What the hell is it going to take for Republicans to understand that a person's body is none of their business? If you don't believe in abortion, don't have an abortion. If I believe in abortion, it's none of your business.

[yuiyoshida]

5. I would say its time for a Massive women's march

Right up to where the Republicans are in Texas and Rise up!! Make some noise.. tell them who is paying their salary .. and telling them to leave us the fuck alone!

[Arkansas Granny]

6. While we're at it, how about mandatory vasectomies for men who don't pay court ordered

child support. Don't they need a little more "personal responsibility" as well?

[TruckFump]

10. That works for me.

IMO, the reponsibility should be passed around.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Anybody who is responsible for that law in any way

Should be forcibly "fixed", so that there's no possibility that any of them might inadvertently be responsible for a woman dying.

[JDC]

4. Fucking Taliban.

[LonePirate]

7. For a party that allegedly loves the Constitution, they ignore the Supremacy Clause all the time.

[slater71]

8. Your going to have that child or we kill you.

Stupid fucking wacko repukes. There is just no answer for this. Maybe a revolution is what it will take to get this country right again.

[yuiyoshida]

9. When "Strange fruit" starts to appear in trees in Texas

That's when they have gone full metal Nazi.

[Submariner]

12. Texas also needs to amputate the impregnating penis, if the woman is put to death

let's see how that idea flies with the male legislators.

[safeinOhio]

17. That was my thought.

Leave the gonads so the desire is there but no way to act on it. As long as they are looking for punitive punishment.

[walkingman]

13. Women seem to be at the bottom of the totem pole. Sometimes I think some men

forget where they came from. Rice University study says he is the 4th most conservative Rep. in the Texas Lege. Jesus Christ, who are numbers 1-3?

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Sure, just as long as they cut the dicks off the fathers.

[snort]

18. Of course, that wound will need to be cauterized...

[Buckeyeblue]

15. If we lose in 2020 this shit will be reality

Pregnancy tests will be tracked. Every miscarriage is a potential homicide investigation.

[JuJuYoshida]

16. just when you thought things couldn't get more fucked up....

there's gonna be a ton of backlash though, stay tuned....

[spanone]

19. Land of the 'free' and the home of the stoooooopid.

[Ilsa]

20. Reminds me of Albert (Nathan Lane) from The Bird Cage:

Sen. Keeley: stop the doctors, you stop the abortions.

Albert: That's ridiculous. The doctors are only doing their jobs. Better to kill the mothers. That will stop them. l know, l know. "lf you kill the mother, the fetus dies too." But the fetus is going to be aborted anyway, so why not let it go down with the ship?

[Yavin4]

21. Was "The Handmaid's Tale" fiction?

Or Non-Fiction?

[moondust]

22. Welcome to the Dark Ages.

[smirkymonkey]

23. Look at this fucking freak.

Tony Tinderholt.

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Married five times. Such a good Christian.

Unfortunately, he wasn't aborted.