THE TENNESSEE CONSERVATIVE

Some outlets, like The Tennessean, have espoused that this legislation would allow the death penalty for women who have abortions, though numerous organizations, including the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, have rebutted this narrative, saying the bill “would simply make murdering anyone illegal for everyone,” and emphasizing that full judicial due process would still apply. 

Abortion numbers continue to climb in the state with more women resorting to surgical abortions at out-of-state clinics or telehealth and black-market purchase of abortifacients, with many of these providers protected from any form of accountability or prosecution thanks to blue state “shield laws.”

MOTHER JONES

Parks says Love Life does not identify as an abolitionist organization—“that’s not really our forte.” But he says it does offer a training called “Legalize Life” run by Bradley Pierce, president of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion and Abolish Abortion Texas, who has pushed for legislation that would charge anyone who gets abortion care with murder.

When I press Parks on Pierce, he acknowledges, “Many of the people in our organization align with that ideology, and there are variations of it.” As he describes Love Life’s position on abortion, it sounds very much like one an abolitionist would embrace. “We agree abortion is murder and that it should be outlawed and every human life should be protected under our laws,” he says. “And we believe that children in the womb are human life.”

CENTER FOR BAPTIST LEADERSHIP

As the largest association of Protestant churches in America, the Southern Baptist Convention indeed has the opportunity to lead the nation toward ending abortion, especially after the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Southern Baptists are making their voices heard on this matter by upholding the simple biblical position that all image-bearers of God should enjoy equal protection under the law. When their institutional leaders follow suit, they should be praised. But those who do not, or will not, should and in fact must be replaced.

ABORTION EVERY DAY

Missouri is just one of multiple states considering legislation that would punish abortion patients. In 2026 alone, Kentucky, South Carolina, Illinois, Tennessee, and South Dakota have all introduced equal protection legislation.

As we pointed out earlier this week, some Republicans are using the bills as an opportunity to make themselves sound moderate by comparison. Others—like Tennessee bill sponsor Rep. Jody Barrett—are doubling and tripling down: “One hundred percent of the kids that are babies that are terminated through abortion are victims… but I cannot say 100% of women who kill their babies through abortion are victims.”

FOX NEWS

Over the weekend, a fan posted a video of Larsson performing her song “Midnight Sun” at a recent concert. The caption read, “I didn’t know I was pregnant here but at least my baby got to hear midnight sun before I aborted it.”

“Women are not victims of abortion,” Foundation to Abolish Abortion communications director Ben Zeisloft commented.

CHRISTIAN POST

A new measure proposed in Tennessee seeks to impose criminal penalties on women who terminate their unborn child, re-sparking a heated debate within the pro-life movement about whether women who undergo abortions should be held criminally liable.

Last month, the Foundation to Abolish Abortion shared the text of an amendment to pending legislation in Tennessee, House Bill 570 and Senate Bill 738, that would impose criminal penalties on women who have abortions. Current criminal penalties apply only to physicians who perform abortions.

KENTUCKY TODAY

House Bill 714, carried in the House by Rep. Josh Calloway, R-Irvington, and Rep. Richard White, R-Morehead, recognizes fetal personhood by requiring the same legal principles to apply during the prosecution of a homicide whether the victim “had been born alive” or was an unborn child.

The bill, also cited as the Prenatal Equal Protection Act, includes two exceptions: 1) “lifesaving procedures on a pregnant woman when the procedures are accompanied by reasonable steps, if available to save the life of her unborn child” and 2) miscarriage—which the bill defines as “the natural or accidental termination of a pregnancy and the expulsion of the unborn child.”

NEWS FROM THE STATES

So-called “abortion abolitionists” who believe that abortion should be classified as homicide, and that fetuses, embryos and zygotes should have the same legal protections as people are often behind these measures.

This year, the Foundation to Abolish Abortion praised Republican lawmakers in Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee who introduced bills that would punish people who get abortions.

LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL

Two more bills that would criminalize abortion have been filed in the House: House Bill 714, filed by Rep. Josh Calloway, R-Irvington, which would open the door for homicide charges to be prosecuted in the death of an unborn child, and House Bill 764, filed by Emily Callaway, R-Louisville, which would explicitly allow the prosecution of pregnant women who have an abortion or cause the death of their unborn child.

The bills would supersede Kentucky’s current laws on prenatal homicide and abortion and open up mothers, like the one in Wolfe County, to additional legal liability, with an exception for miscarriages or lifesaving procedures.

DESERET

While lacking large support in the Legislature, the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, a nonprofit that says its mission is to “exalt and vindicate the image of God by promoting sound public policy that provides all preborn human beings equal protection of the laws,” is publicly supporting the bill.

Despite the state’s total ban enacted in 2022, the Foundation to Abolish Abortion claimed more than 5,000 telehealth abortions occurred “on Tennessee soil” in 2024. Additionally, Guttmacher Institute estimates suggest more than 10,000 Tennesseans traveled out of state for abortion services that same year.

REFORMATION RED PILL with JOSHUA HAYMES

In this episode of Reformation Red Pill, Joshua Haymes interviews Ben Zeisloft, communications director of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, about House Bill 570, the first equal protection bill ever introduced in Tennessee.

THE TENNESSEAN

Despite lack of support in the Senate, Barrett's amendment is gaining momentum. New sponsors in both chambers signed onto the bill this week, and the bill was endorsed by the far-right group Tennessee Stands. 

Abortion abolitionists from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion and an associated student group lobbied lawmakers this week, asking “are you on God’s side or the side of man?”

FOX 56

The Foundation to Abolish Abortion, proponents of House Bill 714, wrote in a news release that it would be “the only legislation that would truly abolish abortion in the Bluegrass State, requiring that preborn babies are ‘protected with the same homicide laws protecting all other human persons.’”

“Under this legislation, murdering anyone would be made illegal for everyone, ensuring that all humans made in the image of God are equally protected in accordance with the Kentucky Constitution, the United States Constitution, and the Law of God,” the Foundation to Abolish Abortion wrote.

ABORTION EVERY DAY

I’m going to repeat that: One in four Republicans in the Georgia House of Representatives has signed onto a bill that would have abortion patients punished with the death penalty or life in prison. The clip below is from a Turning Points USA event at the University of Alabama, featuring Bradley Pierce of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion and Jeff Durbin from End Abortion Now.

While we’re talking about “equal protection” bills: Kentucky Republicans have just introduced legislation that would, you guessed it, punish abortion patients as murderers. HB 714 was likely drafted by the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, which put out a statement lauding the bill today.

PEOPLE

“Murder should be murder, whether it's a person in being or a person in utero,” Barrett told the outlet. He also claimed that the proposal, which is a potential amendment to a bill dealing with the upkeep of a state capitol "monument to unborn children," is not meant to target mothers.

“I think that's a talking point saying that you’re targeting mothers. We’re not targeting mothers,” Barrett told WTVF. “We’re targeting unborn children and trying to protect them and give them the protection under the law for you and me.”

STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS

The bills have gained support just as quickly with the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, an anti-abortion group that promotes policy that “provides all preborn human beings equal protection of the laws,” issuing a notice for supporters to call their legislators to vote in favor of the amendment.

“Murdering anyone must be illegal for everyone,” the advocacy organization said in a post on X. It praised Barrett and Pody for the legislation.

THE MATT WALSH SHOW

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, chaos erupts south of the border as Mexico descends further into anarchy and violence. What if anything should the United States do about this, to protect its own citizens? Also, a new bill in Tennessee could make abortion a criminal offense.

THE DAILY WIRE

Barrett crafted the legislation with the help of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, a group that seeks to expand equal protection laws to the unborn.

“The equal protection legislation in Tennessee affirms this simple biblical and constitutional standard by making murdering anyone illegal for everyone,” Bradley Pierce, the group’s president, told The Daily Wire. “All image-bearers of God, whether born or preborn, must be treated by our laws as equally valuable and worthy of protection.”

THE HILL

Two Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are floating an amendment to an abortion bill that would bring homicide charges against expecting mothers who choose to terminate their pregnancies.

The Foundation to Abolish Abortion also backed the proposal, writing that current Tennessee laws “provide complete legal immunity to any pregnant woman who has an abortion, a loophole that allows mothers to willfully murder their preborn babies through telehealth abortions and other means.”

LIBERTY CHAMPION

Constitutional attorney and President of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion Bradley Pierce spoke at the College Republicans event Monday, Feb. 16. This event was the club’s first speaker event of the semester with more than 50 students and members of the community in attendance. 

Abolition of abortion, according to Pierce, is equal protection for the unborn to the same degree as for a born person. It would make it illegal for abortion providers to manufacture and sell abortion drugs, and it would also make it illegal for the mother to take them or for anyone to coerce a mother into taking them.