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Liberty University students gathered Monday evening to hear constitutional attorney Bradley Pierce critique the pro-life movement and make his case for abolishing abortion.

Pierce, the president of the national nonprofit Foundation to Abolish Abortion and grassroots organization Abolish Abortion Texas, has drafted dozens of bills across the country in an effort to ban abortion completely.

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A Tennessee bill sponsored by Rep. Jody Barrett was initially labeled as a bill dealing with a monument addressing abortion at the state capitol but was crafted with the intention to potentially draft legislation directly connected to abortion.

The proposal, also backed by Reps. Bud Hulsey, Monty Fritts and Ed Butler, with a Senate companion bill sponsored by Sen. Mark Pody, declares that life should be protected “from fertilization to natural death.” It revises state assault and homicide laws to apply the same legal standards to abortions as they would apply to existing homicide cases.

ABORTION EVERY DAY

As equal protection bills gain steam, it’s worth paying attention not only to what “abolitionists” are saying—but how they’re saying it. Because while these guys are deeply immoral losers, they’re not stupid. They know if they’re going to sell the death penalty for abortion patients, they have to sound a lot less crazy than they are.

Bradley Pierce of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion said something similar at a recent Talking Points USA event: “We want there to be the terror of the law, the threat of the law that prevents them from doing it in the first place—and deters them from doing it in the first place.”

NPR ILLINOIS

Sen. Neil Anderson, R-Andalusia, on Feb. 5, introduced a fetal personhood bill that would define a fertilized human egg as a legal “person” and grant it constitutional protections. It would also open the door to first-degree murder charges for abortions.

“The important part of this bill is deterrence,” Anderson said at a Tuesday news conference. “We are outlawing abortion. There’s nobody up here that wants to put women in jail.” Anderson also refiled a bill to reinstate the death penalty for first-degree murder and other crimes. He said he’s introduced it several times over the years.

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS

A Republican lawmaker who introduced a bill to outlaw abortion in Illinois has resigned from his GOP leadership position in the Illinois Senate after conversations with top Republicans.

In his leadership resignation letter, Anderson said he was saddened by Republican disagreement on the issue. “At this point, I am not willing to compromise or set aside what I believe to be true regarding the rights and protection of our unborn neighbors, even where some within our caucus may disagree or view the issue differently,” Anderson wrote.

MUSKOGEE POLITICO

Support for the total abolition of abortion reached historic levels Monday as hundreds of abolitionists gathered at the capitol for the annual Abolition Day rally. Following the rally, House Bill 3038 surged to 25 authors and co-authors, more than tripling the support of any previous abolition measure in Oklahoma history, and surpassing any of the abolition bills that have been introduced in 27 different states.

House Bill 3038, introduced by Rep. Gabe Woolley and Sen. Warren Hamilton, would extend the equal protection of the law to children in the womb–as guaranteed in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–and close the loopholes in Oklahoma law that permit self-managed abortion, making it illegal for anyone to intentionally kill an unborn child.

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A bill to abolish abortion in the state gets lots of support after hundreds of abolitionists gathered at the Capitol for the annual Abolition Day rally yesterday. After the rally, House Bill 3038 had triple the support of any previous abolition measure in Oklahoma history.

And it also surpassed any of the abolition bills that have been introduced in 27 other states. The bill would give equal protection under the law to fetuses in the womb.

LIFESITE NEWS

House Bill 3537, known as the Prenatal Equal Protection Act, would define embryos at any stage of development as “persons,” ensuring that “an unborn child who is a victim of homicide is afforded equal protection under the homicide laws of the state.”

“South Carolina is a deep-red state with a Republican Governor and Republican supermajorities in both chambers of the legislature. They have no excuse to avoid passing H. 3537, the only bill in South Carolina that would establish equal protection of the laws for preborn babies,” Ben Zeisloft, communications director for the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, told LifeSiteNews. “This legislation would simply apply the laws already protecting born people from murder to preborn babies as well, treating all image-bearers of God as equally valuable and worthy of protection.”

ABORTION EVERY DAY

Nearly two years after Iowa enacted a six-week abortion ban, Republicans in the state have introduced legislation that would punish abortion patients as murderers. What’s more, the bill was crafted by the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, the extremist lobbying group behind similar “equal protection” legislation across the country.

Abortion, Every Day has been screaming from the rooftops about their bills for years: we’re seeing more legislation introduced, more co-sponsors signing on, and more normalization in media coverage.

IOWA STARTING LINE

Another bill, House File 2316, would classify any form of abortion as a homicide. The bill is sponsored by Reps. Zach Dieken, Samantha Fett, Mark Cisneros, John Wills, Wendy Larson, Charley Thomson, Dean Fisher, and Craig Johnson. It redefines “person” under Iowa’s homicide and assault law to include fertilized eggs.

The bill does not include exceptions for rape or incest. It does exempt miscarriages and procedures performed to save the life of the mother.

DES MOINES REGISTER

They support House File 2316, a bill sponsored by Rep. Zach Dieken, R-Granville, and seven other Republicans. That bill would classify any abortion as a homicide, with exceptions for miscarriages and procedures performed to save the life of the mother.

Some members of the group held signs comparing abortion to slavery, murder and child sacrifice. Others held signs that read “equal justice” and advocated for House File 2316.

THE DAILY IOWAN

An Iowa lawmaker introduced legislation to abolish and criminalize abortion by classifying it as homicide under state law on Friday. The bill, introduced by Rep. Zach Dieken, R-Granville, would recognize a fetus as a person from the moment of fertilization and apply existing homicide statutes to abortion procedures.

The legislation would criminalize abortion as murder for “all parties involved, including the pregnant mother,” according to a Friday news release from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion. The legislation was written by Bradley Pierce, president of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, an advocacy group that argues abortion should be treated as a criminal act rather than regulated through gestational limits.

KOTA TERRITORY NEWS

The South Dakota House Committee of Health & Human Services voted nine to four to defer House Bill 1212 to the 41st day of the legislative session Thursday, effectively killing it. If passed, the bill would have criminalized abortion, allowing women aborting their unborn children to be held criminally liable.

“While our pro-life laws were fully in effect, a total of 768 South Dakota babies were murdered by abortion,” State Representative Tony Randolph said, arguing in favor of the bill. ”That is not a small increase. That is a 17% increase of abortions in South Dakota babies after our pro-life laws went into effect.”

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A bill that would have criminalized women for getting abortions in South Dakota has died in the House Health and Human Resources Committee. House Bill 1212 would have repealed a section from South Dakota law that says women who get abortions are not liable.

“You cannot abolish abortion without making it illegal for anyone, including the mother, to murder a preborn child,” said Bradley Pierce, president of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion. “You cannot protect women from being pressured to abort a preborn child unless you make it illegal for them to do so.”

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Join us for the newest episode of Apologia Radio in which we give you breaking news about what just happened in South Dakota. We've been telling you for years. They proved it with their own mouths today.

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Pro-life forces debated against each other in Pierre Thursday morning, as a legislative committee defeated a bill that was intended to end abortion in South Dakota.  The bill, sponsored by Representative Tony Randolph, would have applied homicide and wrongful death protection to unborn children and opened women who have an abortion to criminal charges.

Dale Bartscher of South Dakota Right to Life was among those testifying against the bill, saying his organization has passionately opposed the injustice of abortion for decades,  and has just as passionately opposed policies that would criminally punish women.

THE WESTERN JOURNAL

When both bills were heard in a two-hour subcommittee meeting in the South Carolina House earlier this month, there were hundreds of abortion activists present to testify against both bills. There were also hundreds of Christians who appeared to testify in favor of the equal protection bill. But almost nobody from the grassroots was present to testify for the regulation bill.

By the end of the subcommittee hearing, the regulation bill was advanced, and the equal protection bill was left pending without a vote. There were almost no grassroots Christians afforded the opportunity by Republican leaders to testify on the latter.

STEVE DEACE SHOW

Steve and the crew react to the developments between the White House and leaders in Minnesota and say there are some alarming parallels between this story and the early phases of COVID.

Then, Iowa State Rep. Zach Dieken joins the program to discuss a bill he has introduced in the Iowa legislature. In Hour Two, Fake News or Not reacts to a fascinating poll on X regarding how many more birthdays America could celebrate. Pop Culture Tuesday frays an already-frayed Todd.

THE BLAZE

If abortion can still be performed legally in a state through mail-order pills, that state is not “abortion-free.” If abortion numbers rise rather than fall, victory has not arrived. If pro-life groups oppose laws that would make abortion illegal for everyone, they owe the public an explanation.

Abolishing abortion requires equal protection under the law: making the killing of any human being illegal for everyone, without exception or compromise.