GOP convention votes on wide-ranging platform including striking law protecting abortion providers from being charged with murder
Texas Republicans are open to applying the death penalty to abortion providers, a new proposal from the state party indicates.
Over the weekend, during the Texas GOP convention, Republican delegates voted on a party platform for 2024 that proclaims “abortion is not healthcare, it is homicide” and suggests striking a state law that protects abortion providers from being charged with homicide. In Texas, capital murder is punishable by the death penalty. Killing a child under the age of 15 can qualify as capital murder, the most severe form of homicide.
Elsewhere in the platform, the Texas GOP calls for “legislation to abolish abortion by immediately securing the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization”.
What’s your stance?
Pro life.
What should the punishment be?
Death
voting republican kills gynecologists.
Well, you know the classic saying: there is no hate like Christian love
“They were all in love with dyin’, They were doing it in Texas” - Butthole Surfers “Pepper”, 1996.
Women should not be killed for having an abortion.
Ohio communists open to death penalty for Texas Republicans
I double dog dare you. You won’t.
I won’t what? I would never directly murder someone, but if I could sign off on legislation that puts thousands of people at risk of their life, if they can live with it so can i
Prediction: doctosi will flee Texas to avoid, you know, being murdered by the state, and soon enough there won’t be enough doctors left to provide adequate healthcare there, causing many more deaths.
Texas, where life goes to die.
Remember when people said we were overreacting when we said these exact things would happen if Hillary lost?
Hate and stupidity make horrific bedfellows. Especially when given power over others.
So pro-life they are willing to kill you just to show you how much they value life
But abortions are provided by care clinics and hospitals. Isn’t it republican policy to fine the company and let all the people continue their business.
I don’t really want to stick up for Texas Republicans, because fuck ‘em, but the state platform has always been beyond crazy, and even the elected officials don’t try to implement it anywhere near completely, precisely because it’s the one thing that would make the low-information voters they count on take pause.
The real platform, which is plenty scary enough, is (1) obey the donors, and (2) mollify the base with whatever the governor, lt. governor, and AG are spouting off about this month.
That said, I fully support these articles every year, because the horrified reaction reminds the GOP overlords that they’re still subject to a few limits.
I genuinely don’t understand what you’re trying to do here if not stick up for republicans.
I’m not entirely sure either. I guess maybe just trying to add some context. I’m less sanguine than I used to be that this extra level of crazy won’t escape the state convention, but historically it hasn’t.
I think that’s fair. For what it’s worth, I’m not willing to assume it’s political theater anymore. Eventually theater drags the Overton window to the right and becomes a demand of the base and becomes policy.
It’s dangerous regardless as a result.
