Thursday, April 11, 2019

Backward, Christian Soldiers

Some religious nutjob in the Texas state legislature is trying to criminalize a medical procedure.

Men and women, young and old, native Texans and immigrants, they rose to ask lawmakers to protect life, describing a “genocide” and foreseeing the arrival of “God’s wrath.”

The act of public atonement they are seeking is passage of a bill that would criminalize abortion without exception, and make it possible to convict women who undergo the procedure of homicide, which can carry the death penalty in Texas. Though it faces steep odds of becoming law, the measure earned a hearing this week amid a larger legislative push in GOP-controlled states to curtail abortion rights, in a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.

The legislation is the brainchild of state Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a Republican from Arlington, Tex., who was placed under state protection because of death threats he received when he first introduced the bill in 2017. The Air Force veteran, who has been married five times, argues that the measure is necessary to make women “more personally responsible.” He said Tuesday that his intention is to guarantee “equal protection” for life inside and “outside the womb.”

Some of his supporters see the issue in even more fateful terms.

“God’s word says, ‘He who sheds man’s blood, by man — the civil government — his blood will be shed,’” said Sonya Gonnella, quoting the Book of Genesis and asking lawmakers to “repent with us.”

Announcing herself as a “follower of the lord Jesus Christ,” Gonnella was among hundreds of people who testified in a marathon hearing that stretched from Monday into early Tuesday before the Texas House’s Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence.

It was the first time in the state’s history, committee members said, that public testimony had been heard on a measure holding women criminally liable for their abortions. The legislation was left pending on Tuesday, as Democrats claimed there was a contradiction in the agenda advanced by its supporters, who call themselves “pro-life.”

These are more than likely the same people who got hysterical about “Sharia law” when a woman wore a hijab while shopping at Dollar General.  Irony, we hardly knew ye.

One bark on “Backward, Christian Soldiers

  1. It seems there’s a recently produced movie out that purports to show Planned Parenthood committing murder. The producer plans to take it on tour and hopes it will add to the push to take down Roe v. Wade making abortion a crime and the woman who gets one a criminal deserving of a prison term. You’ll note the people who lead this attack on women’s rights are usually men. They want to control the wombs and are only tangentially interested in what happens to the unwanted or brain damaged fetuses after the fact… and are often opposed to sex education in schools which might mitigate so many mistakes made by kids who think “just this once” in the back seat.

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