Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law
I am somewhat familiar with the pro-life movement. The standard response to the mother is to comfort her, show her alternatives and encourage her to have the baby but let her decide. It is to be very gentle. A bill like this is just unheard of. Only MAGA could come up with something like this
OK. So the law is asinine and evil. I think calling it a bill to "execute women who seek an abortion" overstates it. It certainly gets attention, but I think it's inaccurate. As I read your description, it would (insanely) put a woman seeking an abortion in the same legal bucket as a person negotiating a murder-for-hire. I have never heard of such a person being executed. I would guess the usual penalty would be 5 years in jail or some such. I think a headline saying "SC legislators promote bill to charge women seeking abortion with soliciting murder" or "give women seeking abortion prison time" would be more accurate. I would go with the last one.
The law they proposed is sufficiently insane and evil that there is no need to sensationalize it further, IMO. Thank you for giving us their phone numbers. Thank you for your work on awareness of repression in general.
This is the first I heard about this. It is hard for me to type through the tears, and I am actually crying. We are living in hell on earth. If we don't stop this now, we will never get out of this hitleresque life.
Qasim, I am an eighty-eight-year-old senior living on Social Security (and whatever help the good people of California and (until lately) the United States of America consider deserved by a life-long worker in the industries that keep America running). I've done my part to the best of my ability all my working, business and professional life. I'm happy with my life. However, the constant request for donations and support for causes near and dear to my heart troubles me greatly. I am simply no longer able to go beyond my own upkeep and medical care, apartment rent, and occasional surprises that crop up from time to time. Please forgive me.
Reading what you've written in support protecting women in this time of political upheaval shows me that your cause is one I would have once gladly given to. I hope those with the means and the heart will hear you.
So, trying to get this right, they will execute, as in kill, any woman trying to get an abortion. If she's trying to get the procedure, she's still pregnant, right? Are they going to kill the pregnant mother and the fetus, together? Seriously???
Last year, a similar bill was proposed in Brazil by a far-right lawmaker. It sought to impose a punishment equivalent to that for murder on women who undergo abortions, including victims of rape, women carrying anencephalic fetuses, or those whose pregnancy poses a serious risk to their lives. In Brazil, abortion is legal only in these three cases.
The proposal sparked widespread outrage. Society mobilized, protested, and sent petitions. The bill was dubbed the "Rapist’s Bill" by the media, as it imposed a significantly harsher penalty on the victim than on the perpetrator of rape itself. Due to intense public pressure, it was ultimately withdrawn from the agenda.
I hope you are also able to block this absurd measure.
So,umm, to save the baby, kill the mom, which will kill the baby? Or is it save the baby, then, after it’s born, kill the mom, ensuring a motherless baby? Are we thinking the dad will take over or the state? Since programs are being cut, I’m sure the state won’t be able to do this.
I am somewhat familiar with the pro-life movement. The standard response to the mother is to comfort her, show her alternatives and encourage her to have the baby but let her decide. It is to be very gentle. A bill like this is just unheard of. Only MAGA could come up with something like this
OK. So the law is asinine and evil. I think calling it a bill to "execute women who seek an abortion" overstates it. It certainly gets attention, but I think it's inaccurate. As I read your description, it would (insanely) put a woman seeking an abortion in the same legal bucket as a person negotiating a murder-for-hire. I have never heard of such a person being executed. I would guess the usual penalty would be 5 years in jail or some such. I think a headline saying "SC legislators promote bill to charge women seeking abortion with soliciting murder" or "give women seeking abortion prison time" would be more accurate. I would go with the last one.
The law they proposed is sufficiently insane and evil that there is no need to sensationalize it further, IMO. Thank you for giving us their phone numbers. Thank you for your work on awareness of repression in general.
This is the first I heard about this. It is hard for me to type through the tears, and I am actually crying. We are living in hell on earth. If we don't stop this now, we will never get out of this hitleresque life.
Qasim, I am an eighty-eight-year-old senior living on Social Security (and whatever help the good people of California and (until lately) the United States of America consider deserved by a life-long worker in the industries that keep America running). I've done my part to the best of my ability all my working, business and professional life. I'm happy with my life. However, the constant request for donations and support for causes near and dear to my heart troubles me greatly. I am simply no longer able to go beyond my own upkeep and medical care, apartment rent, and occasional surprises that crop up from time to time. Please forgive me.
Reading what you've written in support protecting women in this time of political upheaval shows me that your cause is one I would have once gladly given to. I hope those with the means and the heart will hear you.
You friend of the heart,
Beverly Gaye Scofield
Santa Maria, California
Time for their castration!
Those 6 men would benefit mankind if they had themselves neutered.
Or maybe if someone passed a bill that ordered the neutering!
(Now I sound as mean and unthinking as they are acting! Oh, no, maybe it's catching!)
So, trying to get this right, they will execute, as in kill, any woman trying to get an abortion. If she's trying to get the procedure, she's still pregnant, right? Are they going to kill the pregnant mother and the fetus, together? Seriously???
And which one of these yahoos will be arrested next for sex crimes? 🤔
Burn the witches
Last year, a similar bill was proposed in Brazil by a far-right lawmaker. It sought to impose a punishment equivalent to that for murder on women who undergo abortions, including victims of rape, women carrying anencephalic fetuses, or those whose pregnancy poses a serious risk to their lives. In Brazil, abortion is legal only in these three cases.
The proposal sparked widespread outrage. Society mobilized, protested, and sent petitions. The bill was dubbed the "Rapist’s Bill" by the media, as it imposed a significantly harsher penalty on the victim than on the perpetrator of rape itself. Due to intense public pressure, it was ultimately withdrawn from the agenda.
I hope you are also able to block this absurd measure.
From six chubby white guys who never get any…we are a very fucked up country!!!
Dreams of femacide.
Insane!!!!
Bunch of cowards-all old white men- happy to yell women what to do- wonder how many of them are pedofiles
So,umm, to save the baby, kill the mom, which will kill the baby? Or is it save the baby, then, after it’s born, kill the mom, ensuring a motherless baby? Are we thinking the dad will take over or the state? Since programs are being cut, I’m sure the state won’t be able to do this.
Let’s introduce a bill to execute this stupidity. If you don’t vote these idiots out of office you are the problem.