Missouri Republican proposes bill to enable murder charges for getting an abortion
YAHOO NEWS
“A Missouri Republican has offered legislation that would allow for women to be charged with murder if they get an abortion in the state. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Mike Moon, an Ash Grove Republican, would give fetuses the same rights as human beings, which would allow for criminal charges to be filed against anyone who gets an abortion, helps someone get an abortion or provides abortion care.”
Abortion opponents and supporters spar over prosecuting women
WORLD News
“In some ways, this is all kind of moot,” Pierce said. Now that every home can be an abortion facility, he said, unless the law treats abortion as murder, “we’re dealing with method instead of dealing with the actual conduct of what actually is happening—and that is intentionally causing the death of a human being.”
Inside the Extreme Effort to Punish Women for Abortion
New York Times
In their amicus brief, they wrote, “The court is not only bound by the text of the Constitution, but it is also bound by the limits on human civil authority revealed by God.”
Anti-Abortion Movement Faces Divisions in Post-Roe Politics
Bloomberg News
“We already have laws on the books that prohibit homicide. The abortion exceptions to those laws should be repealed, so that no one can take a life,” said Bradley Pierce, head of Foundation to Abolish Abortion, based in Liberty Hill, Texas. Pierce is an attorney who helped author an amicus brief to the Supreme Court abortion case that was just decided.
“If abortion should be illegal for [anyone], it should be illegal for everyone,” Pierce said.
America Is About to See Just How Pro-life Republicans Actually Are
The Atlantic
America Is About to See Just How Pro-life Republicans Actually Are
The landscape of American politics shifted this week, when the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe. But even on this new terrain, Americans can probably expect much more of the same: a widening chasm between blue states and red.
With Roe abortion access overturned, Texas activists celebrate and others mourn
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
It was a day Bradley Pierce had prayed for. On Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — officially repealing the federal right to abortion and handing control to individual states.
Southern Baptists debate how to best be pro-life
The Christian Post
Southern Baptists debate how to best be pro-life
A debate over the best legal approach to abortion and how it informs resolutions within the Southern Baptist Convention has resurfaced as messengers are set to gather for the denomination’s annual meeting next week.
The anti-abortion movement is about to win. Even it isn’t ready for what comes next.
Vox
The anti-abortion movement is about to win. Even it isn’t ready for what comes next.
Tracking down the sources of abortion pills, a brewing internal schism over arresting pregnant people — welcome to the post-Roe future.
Anti-abortion rights groups say they don't support criminalizing abortion patients
National Public Radio
One of them is Bradley Pierce with the Foundation to Abolish Abortion. He's based in Texas, and he's been drafting legislation that has been proposed in Louisiana and that he's promoting elsewhere to prohibit abortion from the moment of fertilization and to classify it as a homicide.
Where Does the Anti-Abortion Movement Go After Roe?
New York Times
“If the fetus is a person, then we should protect them with the same homicide laws that protect born persons,” said Bradley Pierce, who helped draft the Louisiana legislation and leads the Foundation to Abolish Abortion. “That’s what equal protection means.”
Orleans District Attorney will not 'shift priority' to prosecuting abortion as murder if proposed bill becomes law
The New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune
Attorney Bradley Pierce, who assisted Rep. McCormick in drafting the bill, said the bill is meant to redefine the concept of a person.
"It's a really simple bill," said Pierce, president of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion. "It's a bill to provide legal protection to all persons, which is required by the U.S. Constitution and Louisiana constitution."
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortion would immediately be outlawed in Louisiana.
NBC Nightly News
Bradley Pierce, President of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, helped write that bill, and says his organization is working with at least a dozen other states on anti-abortion legislation. “We believe that abortion is cruel, and it’s the taking of an innocent life, and we should make that illegal. There shouldn’t be some exception for mothers.”
Louisiana wants to make abortion a crime of murder. Supporters even say it's unconstitutional.
USA Today
Bradley Pierce of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion said state legislatures have the right to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court if they disagree with any high court decision.
"If the Supreme Court ignores the (U.S.) Constitution, you should ignore the court."
Louisiana Republicans advance bill that would charge abortion as homicide
The Washington Post
“The Supreme Court is poised to ignore Roe versus Wade,” said Bradley Pierce, executive director of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion.
Louisiana Moves to Charge Women Who Get Abortions With Murder
Rolling Stone
The implication here is that H.B. 813 would be valid regardless of whether the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Bradley Pierce of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion said as much, according to the Lafayette Daily Adviser: “If the Supreme Court ignores the Constitution, you should ignore the court.
Lawyer: Abortion Bill Could Subject Women to Homicide Charge
U.S. News & World Report
“Is Roe vs. Wade the law of the land? We believe the answer is no,” anti-abortion attorney Bradley Pierce told the committee during a hearing at the Capitol in Baton Rouge.
Leaked Threat to Roe v. Wade Stuns, Then Energizes Americans
New York Times
Bradley Pierce, who leads the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, was on his way to Louisiana to testify for a bill he helped draft there when he paused in an airport to do a Facebook Live post about the leaked opinion.
“We need to be putting political pressure on the court right now,” he told supporters. “We need to keep introducing bills about abolition across the country. Don’t let up.”
Abortion Abolition Groups Urge Supreme Court To Overturn Roe v. Wade
The Daily Wire
Bradley Pierce told The Daily Wire that this particular brief is meant to stand out from others filed by pro-life groups.
“The brief is unique because it presents the abolitionist perspective,” he explained. “Among other things, it informs the Court that, for so long as the Court does not overrule Roe itself, more and more Americans still desiring to faithfully follow God and the Constitution… are seeking to bypass the Court by pursuing the abolition of abortion via other peaceful constitutional means.”