Republicans seek execution for women who have an abortion: Straight from Handmaid's Tale

South Carolina Intros Bill to Execute Women Who Seek An Abortion

"South Carolina ranks 8th nationally in highest maternal mortality rate... For the second time since 2023, MAGA Republicans in South Carolina have introduced SC H3537, also known as The South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act. South Carolina House Bill 3537. It proposes changing the legal definition of the word “person” to include an unborn fetus.

This means that a woman who gets an abortion could be charged with homicide, a crime punishable by the death penalty in South Carolina. To be clear: this bill would make it possible for the state to execute women for seeking an abortion." - Quasim Rashid

Are Republicans copying the "Handmaid's Tale". It takes place in Gilead, a futuristic world in which women’s rights are a thing of the past. Cruel men in power send young and fertile women — the “handmaids” — to affluent families, where they are forced to help couples procreate via sexual servitude." - Hollywood Reporter.

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Republican war on women vs. Handmaid's Tale

This Power Map was designed to compare how the Republican attack on women's rights and abortion rights compares to the Handmaid's Tale. The list compares twelve actions and uses specific Republican bills and statements to illustrate the GOP attacks. Full list available here.

Sentenced to jail for an abortion

South Carolina’s own (all male) Supreme Court is already complicit. Despite first blocking a 6-week abortion ban, they then upheld that same ban a few months later 4-1. It seems clear that should H3537 become law, it will also land in front of the same all male Supreme Court, who will likely offer its blessing. Here are three things you can do right now to help counter this extremism - Quasim Rashid

Representative Rob Harris [R]: (803) 212-6788
Representative Josiah Magnuson [R]: (803) 212-6876
Representative William Chumley [R]: (803) 212-6894
Representative James Burns [R]: (803) 212-6891
Representative Steven Long [R]: (803) 212-6878
Representative Jay Kilmartin [R]: (803) 212-6963

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The six MAGA South Carolina Republicans calling to execute women who receive an abortion. (TL-BR) Harris, Magnuson, Chumley, Burns, Long, Kilmartin) - Quasim Rashid

Republican WAR ON WOMEN

"Control of women and children has been a feature of every repressive political regime on the planet and throughout history."

"The Handmaid’s Tale describes a toxic world in which misogyny and environmental degradation has turned the US into a totalitarian theocracy. The fictional republic of Gilead has enforced a system of gender-based violence, enslaving the few women capable of bearing children to serve as “handmaidens” to the ruling class. In Gilead, lesbians and “gender traitors” are hanged. Citizens are tracked, watched, and spied upon. Women are not permitted to read. Children are torn from the arms of their birth mothers. There are deadly skirmishes at the borders, as refugees attempt to flee." - Margaret Atwood in The Conversation

Louisiana Abortion Bill Could See Women Charged With Murder

Under the new proposed House Bill 813, abortion will be considered as homicide from fertilization and conception. The legislators' professed aim is to "ensure the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all unborn children from the moment of fertilization..." Any abortion would then see both the doctor or those assisting and the person who had the abortion charged with murder. - Newsweek

Alabama charges pregnant women who was victim of shooting with murder

A previously 5-months pregnant Alabama woman whose fetus died after she was shot in the stomach during a fight was charged with manslaughter on Wednesday, while the woman accused of shooting her has been freed.

Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women said Alabama currently leads the nation in charging women for crimes related to their pregnancies. She said hundreds have been prosecuted for running afoul of the state's "chemical endangerment of a child" statute by exposing their embryo or fetus to controlled substances. But this is the first time she's heard of a pregnant woman being charged after getting shot. "This takes us to a new level of inhumanity and illegality towards pregnant women," Paltrow said. "I can't think of any other circumstance where a person who themselves is a victim of a crime is treated as the criminal.“ - Fox 35 News

Takeaway: Let your MAGA rep know how you feel about your rights being stolen.

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