The bill, classifying abortion as first-degree murder, was branded extreme by Democrats as it passed its first reading.

From the article:

A bill making its way through the North Carolina Legislature states it would be permissible for a person to use deadly force on a woman they believe is seeking an abortion, something Democrats have branded as “wildly extreme.”

The legislation, now only backed by Republican State Representative Keith Kidwell, would classify abortion as first-degree murder and open up the right of another person to defend the life of the unborn baby as they see fit.

“Any person has the right to defend his or her own life or the life of another person, even by the use of deadly force if necessary, from willful destruction by another person,” the bill reads. “The State has an interest and a duty to defend innocent persons from willful destruction of their lives and to punish those who take the lives of persons, born or unborn, who have not committed any crime punishable by death.”

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/republican-bill-deadly-force-stop-abortions-north-carolina-12005136

Nothing says being pro-unborn-child like murdering the mother while she’s pregnant. That’d really protect the fetus.

Who am I kidding? It’s really a cover hoping that someone will storm in and kill the doctors.

  • Krusty@quokk.auEnglish
    128·
    2 days ago

    Not necessarily.

    By the time any death penalty (execution) would actually occur the birth would have ample time to come to term, if it was viable.

    That’d be interesting though. I suppose the mother could continue to attempt to abort the pregnancy while incarcerated.

      • Krusty@quokk.auEnglish
        122·
        2 days ago

        People aren’t necessarily good lethal shots. Modem medicine is amazing. And funny enough. That dimwit just might consider that and shoot below the waist. To incapacitate but not kill. This is an important distinction in many jurisdictions.

        The irony being the perpetrator of an attempted murder would enjoy freedom while the victim of an attempted murder would be incarcerated.

        Ultimately, the value of life is arbitrary.