Christians failed to push legislation that would have sentenced women to death if they had an abortion, but at least they got to sing their Christian songs and threathen the politicians with the wrath of their god.
Quote:Abortion death penalty bill fails in Tennessee legislature
A bill that sought to charge woman who seek abortions with homicide — including the death penalty — died unceremoniously in a Tennessee House subcommittee on March 10.
House Bill 570, sponsored by Rep. Jody Barrett, R-Dickson, would have removed legal protections for pregnant women currently in statute, and classified harm done to an unborn child as equal to assault on a person “born alive.” Women who get abortions could have been prosecuted for homicide, punishable by life imprisonment or in some cases, the death penalty.
Outbursts followed, and the committee chair ordered the room cleared.
“Cowards and heretics everywhere!” one person yelled.
Outside the chamber, a crowd of “abortion abolition” supporters, predominantly bearded men, belted out the hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” near the committee chamber doors. They followed the hymn with the doxology, hands raised in worship.
“Christ is king! Christ is king! Christ is king!” the men boomed, raising fists into the air after finishing their songs.
On the other side of the group, a throng of women demonstrating for abortion rights held bright pink signs and chanted, “Separate church and state! Separate church and state!”
Brian Gunter, a representative of the abortion abolition group End Abortion Now from Louisiana, denounced the committee members.
“These legislators will be held guilty before a holy God for not doing justice for these children,” Gunter told The Tennessean.
“The members of the committee who did not motion for this to get a hearing today, they are going to, one day … stand before the Lord Jesus Christ the creator of Heaven and Earth with the blood of the children that are continuing to be murdered by abortion in this state on their hands,” he added.
Jennifer Brinkman, a Nashville native, held a sign that read "Jody wants to protect us by killing us? WTF." She said she is concerned that pregnant women are already unable to access emergency care at hospitals due to laws currently in place.
“Women are showing up at emergency rooms bleeding to death, and they are denied care,” Brinkman said. “If a rapist, a person who has mass-murdered people, somebody on death row, if you show up in an emergency room and you are bleeding to death, you will get health care. The only person that is denied health care in this state is a pregnant person who is bleeding to death.”
“Did you notice how many men were in this group? And did you notice that not one of their women was talking? That ought to tell you everything you need to know,” Brinkman said. “Their women are breeding chattel and their women are subservient to them. They are loud, and they are in control.”
Tennessee has had some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country since the state’s “trigger ban” took effect in 2022. The Human Life Protection Act prohibits all abortions from fertilization on, with no exceptions for rape or incest. Narrow medical exceptions exist for ectopic and molar pregnancies, but not fatal fetal diagnoses. Performing an abortion is a Class C felony in Tennessee, resulting in up to 15 years in prison and fines for physicians.
In recent years, lawmakers have also made it a felony for companies and delivery services to fulfill orders for abortion pills by mail in Tennessee, made it a crime to help a minor travel out of state for an abortion without parental consent and required school children to watch a video on fetal development.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/po...086201007/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
