'Executing women is not fringe GOP,' said one human rights lawyer. 'It's your horrifically mainstream 'pro life' GOP.'
"Executing women is not fringe GOP," said one human rights lawyer. "It's your horrifically mainstream 'pro life' GOP.
The bill does not include an exception for people whose pregnancies result from rape or incest, and political commentator Brian Tyler Cohenits language is vague enough to suggest that some people who suffer miscarriages could become eligible for the death penalty. The exceptions provided by Harris include only people who are "compelled" by others to have an abortion against their will or people whose continued pregnancies carry the threat of "imminent death or great bodily injury," although numerous cases since the U.S. Supreme Court overturnedhow exceptions to protect a pregnant person's life often put their safety at risk.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace , a rape survivor, spoke on the House floor last Friday about the bill and warned that its lack of exceptions for rape survivors was part of a "deeply disturbing" trend.Mace, "has been deeply disturbing to me as a woman, as a female legislator, as a mom, and as a victim of rape."
But with nearly two dozen co-sponsors, said human rights lawyer Qasim Rashid, the proposal appears to come from the "horrifically mainstream 'pro-life' GOP."
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