When they called women baby killers they meant it
by digby
One third of women in America deserve the death penalty:
Texas State legislators stayed up well into the morning hearing emotional testimony about a proposed abortion ban.
House Bill 896 would criminalize abortion and classify it as a homicide. Women who have abortions could be sentenced to the death penalty.
One of the legislators brought up the fact that when a person kills a pregnant woman he or she is charged with double murder. Therefore, we've already decided that it's murder and women should be subject to the same laws. That was always the point of enacting those laws in the first place. They play the long game.
This is where the logic of the anti-abortion movement inevitably takes you. No one should be surprised by it.
This guy gets it:
