None of this is surprising. Sending people to jail is and has always been the #BigProLife agenda. THREAD:
When a would-be justice asserts "life begins" at fertilization they are arguing for Constitutional personhood, a term that makes abortion and birth control illegal. It means even the potential of pregnancy has more constitutional rights that the actual people who can be pregnant.
Tbh, however, #BigProLife is not actually obsessed with the law but rather what they can use the law to get away with. Provisions to send abortion providers to jail are routinely written into anti-abortion laws.
The time to familiarize yourself with @reproaction's #StopProsecutingAbortion campaign is now. reproaction.org/campaign/stop-…
In the first video we released, you see Operation Save America activists and leaders bloodthirsty to send people to jail, even saying people should be executed for abortion.
Congressman Ron Wright, R-TX, told us that women should "absolutely" be punished for self-managed abortion. reproaction.org/action/emergen… #StopProsecutingAbortion
There are many more videos, with members of Congress, people going into Trump speaking at Susan B. Anthony List #BigProLife gala saying a woman sent to jail for self-managing her abortion 'shouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place', watch here: reproaction.org/stop
Abortion, birth control, infertility treatment ... Amy Coney Barrett has sent very clear signals that she would not just outlaw them but throw people in jail to accomplish it.
Criminalizing reproductive health care is not some dystopian future. What many folks don't understand is that people are already going to jail for abortion and miscarriage in the United States. Who? As with everything else, people of color and poor people are most targeted.
Blue and purple states won't protect you. I live in VA. In past few years, even with pro-choice governor and attorney general, a woman was charged with a felony for self-managed abortion before it was later dropped. Another woman convicted for stillbirth at home before pardoned.
ED of org whose ad Amy Coney Barrett signed onto: "“We support the criminalization of the doctors who perform abortions. At this point we are not supportive of criminalizing the women." AT THIS POINT? They are telling you the quiet parts basically out loud.
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