GOP convention votes on wide-ranging platform including striking law protecting abortion providers from being charged with murder
abortion providers, a new proposal from the state party indicates.that proclaims “abortion is not healthcare, it is homicide” and suggests striking a state law that protects abortion providers from being charged with homicide. In Texas, capital murder is punishable by the death penalty.
Abortion patients are not mentioned in the provision in the proposed platform that redefines abortion as homicide, making its implications for abortion seekers unclear.bills that would have instituted the death penalty for abortion patients. They all stalled out in the Republican-dominated state legislature.
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