The death penalty has always appeared a bit of a oxymoron with the state killing a person for killing another person and a bill currently making it's way through the Texas justice system is legislation that would not only criminalise abortion, but make it a capital crime.
The 'Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act' would classify abortion as murder and allow both abortion providers and women receiving abortions to be charged with murder, with no exception for cases of rape or incest, and would treat abortion in all stages of pregnancy with equal severity, conferring upon an embryo from 'the moment of fertilisation the same rights, powers and privileges as are secured or granted by the laws of this state to any other human child'.
It isn't easy to reconcile that some people are so pro-life they want to kill women for having abortions and to do to her the same thing that they are alleging she is doing to a child but in the age of Donald Trump and right wing zeal.
Earlier this month, legislation was introduced in Alabama that would make carrying out an abortion at any stage of a pregnancy punishable by anywhere between 10 and 99 years in jail.
It was always said of America don't get sick, don't grow old and don't be poor but we can now add to that don't be female and get raped because the old white men who run things there are very keen to control your reproductive rights.
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