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Texas GOP platform to consider the death penalty for those who provide abortions – No Rights To Speak Of

Texas GOP platform to consider the death penalty for those who provide abortions

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Texas GOP Appears To Put Death Penalty For Abortion Patients On 2024 Wish List

Texas delegates voted on a 2024 platform at the state’s GOP Convention on Saturday and aim to tally the votes by Wednesday to finalize their platform for the coming year. The proposal called for new legislation to solidify fetal personhood ideology into law, define abortion care as homicide and criminalize in vitro fertilization, first reported by feminist writer Jessica Valenti.

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Texas Republicans open to death penalty for abortion providers

Regardless of the platform’s implications for abortion patients, adding language that in effect defines fetuses as people, complete with full legal rights and protections, could have vast implications for wide swaths of Texas law, including cutting off access to in vitro fertilization. Efforts to establish “fetal personhood” have sped up in anti-abortion circles in recent years, but experts say that the full implications of this ideology have never been realized. Earlier this year, IVF treatments in Alabama temporarily ground to a halt after the state supreme court ruled frozen embryos were “intrauterine children”.

Read more at The Guardian