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Because they believe laws that protect abortion access to be morally illegitimate, activists are even working in states where they have extremely low chances of success. In Missouri, for example, legislators have introduced an abolitionist bill, though a majority of voters enshrined a right to abortion in the constitution. Bradley Pierce, president of a Texas-based nonprofit called the Foundation to Abolish Abortion (FAA), called the Missouri amendment "null and void."

"We are relying on the principle of higher law in the state of Missouri," Pierce wrote in an email. "State and local officials," he wrote, "have the duty to obey the higher law of God."

1819 NEWS

The bill in question, House Bill 518 (HB518), also known as the Prenatal Equal Protection Act, is aimed at providing "equal protection" under the law for unborn children who are killed by abortion. HB518 would permit criminal prosecution for abortions in the state with several exceptions. Under the bill, prosecutions where the victim is an unborn child "must be treated the same as if the unborn child were born alive."

The Foundation to Abolish Abortion (FAA) has been active this and previous years, advocating for similar equal protection bills in state legislatures nationwide, including Alabama.

MUSKOGEE POLITICO

Oklahoma Republican Party activists gathered this past weekend to elect new leadership and advance new party business at the biennial state convention. Among the items passed by convention delegates was a censure of four Republican state senators for voting in the Senate judiciary committee to against a bill to end abortion in Oklahoma.

Yes, after decades of pro-life pledges and bills, it's Republicans (allegedly 'conservative' and '100% pro-life', to boot) that are standing in the way of abolishing abortion in our state and ending the continued post-Dobbs slaughter of preborn human beings. You can read a little more background information in this article from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion.

THE TEXAN

From August 2022 — the month Texas’ abortion restrictions trigger law went into effect — to December 2024, no elective abortions have been performed, according to Induced Termination of Pregnancy (ITOP) data released monthly by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHS). 

Bradley Pierce, President of Abolish Abortion Texas, told The Texan he believes the Texas HHS data indicating zero elective abortions is missing important context because it “does not account for the more than 25,000 abortions still happening on Texas soil every single year by means of abortion pills from telehealth visits and protected by shield laws.”

CLEAR TRUTH MEDIA

Anyone who has been involved in the battle against abortion will recognize a handful of tired pro-abortion talking points. The abortion activist insists that a baby is a mere clump of cells, that abortion is somehow healthcare, or that the state should not be involved in health decisions.

These assertions fall apart under even the slightest scrutiny. That is when the sabotage starts. Christians opposing abortion have likely heard that they are apologists for rape or incest, that they have hypocritically failed to adopt enough babies, that they overlook acts of purported systemic racism, or that they are violating the rights of others. None of these claims are true, but pursuit of truth is not the point. The point is to emotionally manipulate Christians into silence.

THE REPUBLIC SENTINEL

Missouri Republican State Representative Justin Sparks and Missouri Republican State Representative Burt Whaley submitted the Missouri Prenatal Equal Protection Act. The proposal would establish equal protection of the laws for preborn children in Missouri, thereby applying the homicide and assault laws that already protect born people to also protect preborn people, according to a release from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion.

But members of the Missouri House Children and Families Committee, the majority of whom are Republicans, failed to provide a “do pass” vote for the Missouri Prenatal Equal Protection Act. While three members voted in favor, seven voted against the measure and five voted “present.”

THE WESTERN JOURNAL

Texas Alliance for Life announced that they opposed House Bill 2197 because the measure would “criminalize abortion for women.” That is because House Bill 2197 would close loopholes in Texas law granting mothers blanket immunity for willfully murdering their preborn children.

An analysis from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion conservatively estimated that there are 60,000 abortions each year committed by Texans, including more than 25,000 on Texas soil.

LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL

The 2025 legislative session is over, and Republicans missed another opportunity to end abortion legally. If you’re thinking, “Wait, isn’t abortion already banned?” — you’re likely not alone. After Roe v. Wade was overturned and Kentucky’s trigger law took effect, news reported abortion was “banned” in the commonwealth. That’s misleading.

Abortion clinics closed in August 2022, and thank God. But that doesn’t mean abortions have stopped. The Foundation to Abolish Abortion estimates Kentucky may have seen 2,095 self-managed abortions in a 12-month period despite its “abortion ban.”

RED STATE

In February, Georgia's heartbeat law, which restricts abortion after a discernable heartbeat is detected (around six weeks) except in the cases of rape, incest, or the life of the mother, was once again upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court in a 6-1 decision.

But for a faction of life advocates known as "abortion abolitionists," so-called heartbeat bills do not stop abortions from happening. Their aim is to change this, making it illegal to have one. In March, State Rep. Emory Dunahoo (R-31) introduced House Bill 441 (HB 441), the "Georgia Prenatal Equal Protection Act," which would make abortion a criminal act. If made law, it would remove the six-week timeframe of the heartbeat law and the exceptions that go along with it.

MS. MAGAZINE

If you thought that antiabortion Republican lawmakers in red states like Texas, Idaho, South Carolina and Georgia would be satisfied now that they have passed extreme abortion bans in their states, think again—just doling out legal threats to the citizens in their states who they believe are aiding and abetting abortions was not enough. Now, they want to punish women themselves for getting abortions.

BLAZE MEDIA

Georgia Life Alliance is opposed to legislation that would recognize the personhood of the unborn and their slayings as murder…

Georgia Life Alliance recently raised eyebrows with a publicized March 19 letter to the state House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee asking that it refrain from holding its hearing on HB 411 or at least kill it in committee.

THE 19TH

None of the bills are likely to become law. But they illustrate a growing divide in the anti-abortion movement and could punish pregnant people.

Lawmakers in at least eight states are weighing bills that would treat abortion as a homicide, imposing criminal penalties on both providers and patients, once a Rubicon for the movement.

The bills, filed in Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas, stem from the Prenatal Equal Protection Act, model legislation crafted by the Texas-based advocacy group the Foundation to Abolish Abortion. Three similar bills were introduced in Indiana, North Dakota and Oklahoma but failed to pass in committee or on the floor of the legislature.

LEDGER-INQUIRER

GA’s proposed total abortion ban bill wants ‘capital punishment’ for women, doctors

“Georgia lawmakers have introduced House Bill 441, titled the “Georgia Prenatal Equal Protection Act,” which extends the scope of current laws governing abortion. This bill contains a total abortion ban, with very few exceptions, and could criminalize recipients and medical providers with capital punishment.”

BREITBART

In February, Georgia's heartbeat law, which restricts abortion after a discernable heartbeat is detected (around six weeks) except in the cases of rape, incest, or the life of the mother, was once again upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court in a 6-1 decision.

But for a faction of life advocates known as "abortion abolitionists," so-called heartbeat bills do not stop abortions from happening. Their aim is to change this, making it illegal to have one. In March, State Rep. Emory Dunahoo (R-31) introduced House Bill 441 (HB 441), the "Georgia Prenatal Equal Protection Act," which would make abortion a criminal act. If made law, it would remove the six-week timeframe of the heartbeat law and the exceptions that go along with it.

ATHENS BANNER-HERALD

In February, Georgia's heartbeat law, which restricts abortion after a discernable heartbeat is detected (around six weeks) except in the cases of rape, incest, or the life of the mother, was once again upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court in a 6-1 decision.

But for a faction of life advocates known as "abortion abolitionists," so-called heartbeat bills do not stop abortions from happening. Their aim is to change this, making it illegal to have one. In March, State Rep. Emory Dunahoo (R-31) introduced House Bill 441 (HB 441), the "Georgia Prenatal Equal Protection Act," which would make abortion a criminal act. If made law, it would remove the six-week timeframe of the heartbeat law and the exceptions that go along with it.