03/03/2026
From Abortion Today:
America’s Broken Overton Window
While we’re on the topic of women being arrested on bogus charges, let’s check in with so-called ‘equal protection’ bills. About half a dozen states¹ have introduced legislation that would charge women who end their pregnancies with homicide—in some of those states, that could mean the death penalty.
Most recently to join the fray is Kentucky, where Reps. Josh Calloway and Richard White are pushing HB 714. The bill would require the “death” of embryos, fetuses, and fertilized eggs to be treated as homicides.
And we’ve gotta say, the bill’s ‘exceptions’ are as telling as the legislation itself. Lawmakers write, for example, that women shouldn’t be prosecuted for “natural or accidental” miscarriages. Is there such a thing as a “non-accidental” miscarriage? And who in the world will determine that?
Now, the sad fact is that Republicans don’t need these bills to prosecute women: they’re doing it already. But the speedy rise of making that punishment explicit should worry us all.
There’s another downside to the rise of these activists and their so-called equal protection legislation: they’re giving Republican legislators who don’t support their bills the opportunity to seem moderate by comparison.
