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Missouri State Sen. Mike Moon and Missouri State Rep. Burt Whaley announced the filing Monday of separate bills, called the Missouri Prenatal Equal Protection Act, designed to completely abolish abortion in the state.

The legislation would recognize the abortion amendment passed by voters in 2024 as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, making it a criminal offense of murder for those engaged in the procedure.

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The Foundation to Abolish Abortion, which supports the legislation, claims the 2024 amendment violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause as it denies legal protections to fetuses. Under the proposed law, anyone who performs, assists with, or receives an abortion could face charges: the same penalties that apply to homicide cases involving born individuals.

“We have a duty as lawmakers to abolish abortion,” Sen. Moon said. “The abortion amendment in the Missouri Constitution is not a valid excuse for inaction or delay.”

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Missouri Republicans have introduced legislation that would punish abortion patients as murderers, putting them at risk of life in prison or the death penalty. The Missouri Prenatal Equal Protection Act, introduced by Sen. Mike Moon and Rep. Burt Whaley, would also amend the definition of “human being” in the state’s criminal code to include fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses.

But the recent explosion of such legislation tells a different story: lawmakers in over a dozen states introduced “equal protection” bills last year, lobbied by so-called abortion abolitionists. The Texas GOP even wrote “equal protection” into its official platform. Just as bad, the culture is moving right along with the politics. The Overton Window is shifting in real time. Which is why we need to raise the alarm every single time these bills appear.

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The abolitionists don’t just have soft targets; they also have a sophisticated legal organization, led by Bradley Pierce, an experienced lawyer who has written abolitionist model legislation, and who has worked with the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is now the nation’s leading anti-abortion litigator. Pierce’s model laws are ready-made solutions for men like Cash who want to push colleagues further toward even more extreme anti-abortion views.

Pierce’s cause also has an army in Southern Baptist churches, which are pushing for an endorsement of abolitionism in the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC hasn’t gone that far, but it has passed resolutions replete with abolitionist language, and abolitionist allies continue to press for more.

MOTHER JONES

Abortion abolitionists have backed Cash’s bill while also complaining it doesn’t go far enough. “Senate Bill 323 still falls short of equal protection,” the Foundation to Abolish Abortion said in a legislative analysis on its website. “The prison sentences prescribed by the bill are weaker than existing penalties in South Carolina for the murder of born people.” In other words, the death penalty.

As my colleague Kiera Butler wrote earlier this year, the once-fringe abolitionist movement, dominated by militant Christian men, including a group that has become known as “TheoBros,” has been on the rise since the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022.

THE BLAZE

God judges nations that commit child sacrifice. America is well on its way to joining the Canaanites, the Aztecs, and the Gauls in the history of nations that murder their own children and are brought to their knees by the God who cannot endure such rebellion forever.

If we want our nation to continue, we must protect all image-bearers of God from murder, criminalizing the unjustified taking of human life for everyone willfully involved. Rather than rebelling against God, our nation must turn in repentance and faith toward Jesus Christ.

THE BLAZE

The removal of taxpayer dollars from the abortion holocaust is not wrong. But it is far from an action that will move us toward a decisive end to the bloodshed. Moreover, setting the mere defunding of baby murder as a central priority diminishes the gravity of this atrocity.

The main problem with abortion is not that we are forced to help pay for it. The main problem is that people are murdering babies. We should not merely defund specific facilitators of the abortion holocaust. We should end the abortion holocaust without exception or compromise. The best way to defund Planned Parenthood is to criminalize abortion as murder.

HUMAN EVENTS

Forsythe observes that such equal protection bills, many of which our team at the Foundation to Abolish Abortion drafted, have been “introduced in several states in recent years to penalize women for abortions.” Forsythe defends the position of many Pro-Life groups that no woman should ever be prosecuted for willfully taking the life of her own preborn baby.

But the stance of the Pro-Life establishment against any prosecutions for women who abort their children ensures the murder of preborn babies will never truly be abolished. Even worse, it guarantees that such murders will continue under the explicit protection of our laws.

GEM STATE CHRONICLE

Pastor Jeff Durbin of Apologia Church in Tempe, Arizona, and Bradley Pierce of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion will debate Pastor Doug Wilson of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, and Pastor Toby Sumpter of King’s Cross Church in Moscow, Idaho. Joshua Haymes, the host of Reformation Red Pill, will serve as the moderator.

Durbin and Pierce, who are both abortion abolitionists, will defend the thesis “civil magistrates should reject regulatory Pro-Life legislative strategies as biblically forbidden, morally compromised, and practically counterproductive.” Wilson and Sumpter affirm smashmouth incrementalism and will be arguing in the negative.

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FITSNEWS

Senate Bill 323, introduced by South Carolina Republican Senator Richard Cash, would codify criminal penalties for all parties involved in abortion, including the pregnant mother who willfully takes the life of her pre-born baby.

While S. 323 is a huge step in the right direction, Equal Protection South Carolina does not support the current version and suggested amendments to ensure it established true equal protection of the laws for pre-born babies beginning at fertilization. That being said, criminalizing abortion for all parties involved would close the loophole in South Carolina law keeping abortion legal for women.

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As of October 1, the state Agency for Health Care Administration reported 33,339 abortions performed as compared with 50,224 during the same period in 2024. This means 16,885 fewer abortions overseen by physicians in the state have been committed so far in 2025.

The data does not account for Floridians who may have traveled out of state for an abortion or for those who have illegally obtained abortion pills by mail. Thus, as the Foundation to Abolish Abortion noted, the decrease is “likely overstated by the omission of key abortion data.”

THE WESTERN JOURNAL

The Foundation to Abolish Abortion reposted footage of Trump speaking on the matter, writing, “IVF as commonly practiced promotes the intentional destruction of preborn babies while in their earliest stages of development.

“Christians need to pray that President Trump would instead seek to protect preborn babies, rather than promoting practices which involve the selective aborting, discarding, and indefinite freezing of preborn babies made in the image of God.”

ALABAMA POLITICAL REPORTER

Entitled “All Human Life Is Valuable,” the event will feature a conversation between Pierce, a constitutional attorney and president of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, and Durbin, a pastor and president of End Abortion Now. According to a post made on the Foundation to Abolish Abortion’s X account, the speakers will specifically discuss “how all human life is valuable and worthy of equal protection.”

As “abortion abolitionists,” Pierce and Durbin both believe that abortion should be illegal in all instances and that individuals who receive or provide abortions should face criminal punishment, up to and including the death penalty.

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Alabama’s Turning Point USA chapter is set to host a public campus speaking engagement at the University of Alabama on Tuesday, Oct. 7, following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The event, titled "All Human Life Is Valuable," will feature Bradley Pierce, a constitutional attorney and president of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, and Jeff Durbin, president of End Abortion Now and pastor at Apologia Church.

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The conversation, entitled “All Human Life Is Valuable,” will feature attorney Bradley Pierce, the president of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, and Jeff Durbin, the president of End Abortion Now and pastor at Apologia Church in Mesa, Ariz. It will be held on October 7.

“The light of Jesus Christ dispels the works of darkness, including the child sacrifice which remains legal in all fifty states,” said Pierce in the announcement.

POST AND COURIER

Many backers invoked Scripture. One proponent, pastor and Springfield mayoral candidate Trent Still, suggested “sinful empathy or ungodly and misguided sympathy towards women” led American society to be too lenient toward abortion.

Representatives with groups like the Texas-based Foundation to Abolish Abortion and Equal Protection South Carolina insinuated lawmakers might not get into heaven for voting against the bill or, at the very least, lose their seats for failing to support it.

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Matt Brock, executive director of Equal Protection South Carolina, said “a lot of people here today tell you that this bill goes too far, I’m here to tell you according to the word of God, S.323 doesn’t go far enough.” John Rice-Cameron from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion was also there: this is the organization that drafts and lobbies for “equal protection” legislation.

What happens next is unclear. It’s fair to assume the criminalization piece will get cut: no amount of fire-and-brimstone bullshit from “abolitionists” changes how wildly unpopular it is to throw women in jail. Beyond that, I just don’t know.

JEZEBEL

Terrifyingly, many who spoke at the hearing also testified that they believed SB 323 still wasn’t strict enough. John Rice-Cameron, a known anti-abortion activist, said that while the “bill would be the strongest anti abortion law in America if passed,” he still believes there are two amendments to be added.

One, he says, is that the bill should legally classify abortion as murder and provide equal protection to fetuses: the ultimate goal of the fetal personhood movement. The other, to redefine how the state talks about IVF because, as he says, “the current language leaves children conceived in IVF unprotected.”

THE TEXAN

Bradley Pierce, President of Abolish Abortion Texas and the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, told The Texan in an interview, “The current laws of Texas deny equal protection to preborn children. While they ban abortion for third-party abortion providers, they also grant immunity for all women who willfully choose to murder their preborn babies, a massive loophole that the major Pro-Life groups in Texas actively defend.”

He referenced legislation that was filed to do so in both the regular and special sessions by state Rep. Brent Money, noting that it was opposed by other pro-life groups in the Capitol who instead supported HB 7. He described it as “a shocking betrayal of Christians and conservatives in Texas who want to see abortion abolished.”