South Carolina Republicans proposed a bill giving personhood to fertilized eggs, meaning people who obtain abortions could face the death penalty. (via The ReidOut Blog)
, some of the bills “explicitly target medication abortion and self-managed abortion; some look to remove provisions in the law which previously protected pregnant people from criminalization; and others look to establish the fetus as a person from the point of conception.”
Former President Donald Trump bears some responsibility for promoting the idea that people who undergo abortions should be severely punished. , Trump called abortion a “very serious problem” said “there has to be some form of punishment” for people who undergo abortions.
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