If you thought the forced-birth crazies couldn't get any crazier, welcome to the Texas Republican Party, which has an extreme position stated in its party platform. Jessica Valenti sounds the alarm:
"We need to talk about Plank 35 in the Texas GOP platform. Because while there’s been lots of coverage about how extremist the state’s Republican convention was, people seem to have missed the fact that delegates adopted a platform that calls for abortion patients to be punished as murderers. In Texas, that could mean the death penalty.
I wish I was exaggerating.
The GOP’s platform demands 'equal protection for the preborn,' and for Texas legislation to give fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses 'equal protection of the law.'
If you’re a regular reader, you know that 'equal protection' is a call for abortion to be treated as homicide, and for abortion patients to be prosecuted as murders. (Remember South Carolina’s Prenatal Equal Protection Act, and Georgia’s Prenatal Equal Protection Act? Both were bills to make abortion punishable as a homicide.)
That’s because 'equal protection' is the polite-sounding rallying cry of abortion ‘abolitionists’—radical anti-abortion activists who say women aren’t victims in abortion, but killers. The once-fringe group has been gaining more power and influence since Roe was overturned, with some running for and winning state office." (our emphasis)
As Valenti points out, similar moves have been initiated in other red states after the Malignant Loser's Supreme Court appointees gutted Roe v. Wade in 2022, as the reactionary forced-birth movement tries to expand its reach. For a movement that claims to be "pro-life," their view of women only as vessels for reproduction to be potentially executed if they won't reproduce is sick. Their extremism is why we're counting on the "Roevember" election to be the pushback on their dangerous actions.
(photo: Abortion rights supporters at the Texas State Capitol on Sept. 1, 2021. Sergio Flores / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
