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.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 hours ago

    Let’s do a little transitive property game.

    The bill presupposes that there is an absolute moral duty to protect the unborn.

    A theoretical woman is considering an abortion, so it must therefore be okay to murder her.

    Therefore, it is okay to murder someone to protect an unborn person.

    This bill would make it okay to murder women to protect the unborn.

    But that would kill the unborn!

    So, it must therefore be okay to kill in order to prevent this bill from passing.

    So by this bill’s own logic, it would be morally correct to kill Keith Kidwell.

    ALL OF THE ABOVE IS PURELY AN EXERCISE IN ARGUMENTUM AD ABSURDUM AND NOT AN ACTUAL PROPOSAL. DO NOT DO MURDERS.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      49 minutes ago

      Wait a second… If someone is going to kill the mother, they are almost certainly killing the fetus. Therefore wouldn’t it be totally legal to shoot anyone who is trying to shoot a pregnant woman as your defending the fetus too?

    • deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      46 minutes ago

      make it legal to murder women for having abortions

      effectively makes it legal to murder women who are pregnant

      now you may legally murder / assault any woman, under the guise she was pregnant/was going to have an abortion, if the woman is even a little bit pro abortion or just isn’t a pro”life” psycho, it will be proven that “this man believed she had endangered her baby within reasonable doubt”

      Not only would this sexist, misogynist, murderous law allow people to murder women with near impunity, but it is just another piece of legislation that is attempting to legalize Republicans killing any democrat, leftist or otherwise. They tried to do it with Rittenhouse, J6, and inch closer and closer with their “legal” jargon like this all the time, now

      I firmly believe this is the end goal of American and other oligarch capitalists when it comes to laws like this. I really hope it would be like “fighting words” where it’s not very enforceable in practice, but that doesn’t matter when women are being killed or even dying being denied healthcare.

      They don’t care about the “unborn”. They want to force you to have children so your children can become their worker slaves or even worse with what we’ve seen in all this Epstein stuff. God I hate this place