{"id":3354,"date":"2025-03-08T23:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T07:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2025-03-08T23:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T07:59:21","slug":"in-red-states-gop-lawmakers-revive-an-incredibly-regressive-push-to-treat-abortion-as-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/in-red-states-gop-lawmakers-revive-an-incredibly-regressive-push-to-treat-abortion-as-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"In red states, GOP lawmakers revive an &#8220;incredibly regressive&#8221; push to treat abortion as murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican state lawmakers in more than 10 states, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/12\/12\/south-carolina-legislators-try-again-on-bill-that-would-classify-abortion-as-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Carolina<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/12\/07\/its-going-to-create-fear-idahos-abortion-trafficking-law-shows-that-free-speech-is-a-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idaho<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/topic\/kentucky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kentucky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/topic\/missouri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Missouri<\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/topic\/georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/topic\/indiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2023\/05\/02\/the-terrifying-realities-of-north-dakotas-near-total-abortion-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Dakota<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/topic\/oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma<\/a>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>have all introduced bills that would redefine abortion as homicide by defining\u00a0a &#8220;person&#8221; or &#8220;human being&#8221;\u00a0as inclusive of an &#8220;unborn&#8221; or &#8220;preborn&#8221; child. All seek to criminalize abortion in a way that has been rejected by even the most hard-line anti-abortion states: by explicitly criminalizing the person who obtains the abortion. Though several of the measures appear stalled and unlikely to move ahead this year, more than a half-dozen proposals are still making their way through state legislatures.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/02\/27\/in-red-states-lawmakers-revive-an-incredibly-regressive-push-to-treat-abortion-as\/\">Salon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican state lawmakers in more than 10 states, including\u00a0South Carolina, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Georgia,\u00a0Indiana, North Dakota and Oklahoma,\u00a0have all introduced bills that would redefine abortion as homicide by defining\u00a0a &#8220;person&#8221; or &#8220;human being&#8221;\u00a0as inclusive of an &#8220;unborn&#8221; or &#8220;preborn&#8221; child. All seek to criminalize abortion in a way that has been rejected by even the &#8230; <a title=\"In red states, GOP lawmakers revive an &#8220;incredibly regressive&#8221; push to treat abortion as murder\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/in-red-states-gop-lawmakers-revive-an-incredibly-regressive-push-to-treat-abortion-as-murder\/\" aria-label=\"More on In red states, GOP lawmakers revive an &#8220;incredibly regressive&#8221; push to treat abortion as murder\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[598,172,5,42,12,60,15,597,83,33,26],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-as-murder","tag-abortion-bans","tag-georgia","tag-idaho","tag-indiana","tag-kentucky","tag-missouri","tag-murder","tag-north-dakota","tag-oklahoma","tag-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}