The 'Mastermind' Behind the Draconian 'Heartbeat Bill' Banning Abortion as Early as 6 Weeks

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Kristen Doerer
@k2doe
Texas' draconian abortion law is the product of a decades-long effort by the religious right to dismantle Roe. At the heart of that effort was Janet Porter, the “mastermind” behind the “heartbeat bill.”

My latest for @RightWingWatch:

The ‘Mastermind’ Behind the Draconian ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Banning Abortion as Early as 6 Weeks | Right...
Americans woke up last Wednesday morning to a new reality: Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark legislation granting a woman a right to an abortion, was violently under attack through the passage of a new …
rightwingwatch.org
7:45 AM · Sep 8, 2021

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-mastermind-behind-the-draconian-heartbeat-bill-banning-abortion-as-early-as-6-weeks/

*snip*

Porter is often seen as the mastermind behind so-called heartbeat legislation, which bans women from having abortions after a “heartbeat” is detected—as early as six weeks in some cases and, for many women, before they’re aware that they are pregnant. Medical experts say the term “fetal heartbeat” is scientifically inaccurate, noting that at six weeks, the embryo—which is not yet a fetus—will have not yet developed a heart. But the term “fetal heartbeat” pulls at heartstrings, and its marketability, for a lack of better term, has Porter to thank.

While Porter has made restricting access abortion her main priority, the longtime religious-right activist’s extremism has been well documented on these pages. As Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, Porter took to her radio program to spread the racist birther conspiracy theory championed by Donald Trump. Once Obama was elected, the conspiracies didn’t stop: As Right Wing Watch reported, she falsely claimed “Obama would orchestrate food shortages to starve conservatives to death, use a swine flu outbreak as an excuse to lock them up in concentration camps, and use Obamacare to deny them healthcare and eliminate them.” On the pages of World Net Daily, a far-right conspiracy website, she frequently penned columns—her last, published Dec. 11, 2020, refused to accept Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.

When she wasn’t spreading noxious conspiracy theories, the activist was attempting to beat back the advance of gay rights, claiming Christians would be labeled criminals, rounded up, and tossed in jail if gay people had rights. She also trumpeted “conversion therapy,” a range of dangerous and discredited practices meant to change one’s sexual orientation, and was labeled the “The Architect of the ‘Conversion Therapy’ Campagin” by the New York Times. The activist, purportedly so concerned about the lives of children, even served as a spokeswoman for Roy Moore, the former Alabama chief justice who unsuccessfully ran for Senate, defending him after he was accused of child molestation and attacking the woman who accused him.

At the heart of Porter’s activism is an effort to spread a fundamentalist version of Christianity. In 2010, her views became so extreme that VCY, the Christian radio station broadcasting her show, canceled it, citing “the drift of the program toward ‘dominion’ theology”—that is, the idea that Christians are called to take complete control over every aspect of human life in order to bring about the return of Christ. Among those aspects of human life: abortion and women’s bodies.

*snip*

[ARPad95]

1. Pure projection on her part.

Once Obama was elected, the conspiracies didn’t stop: As Right Wing Watch reported, she falsely claimed “Obama would orchestrate food shortages to starve conservatives to death, use a swine flu outbreak as an excuse to lock them up in concentration camps, and use Obamacare to deny them healthcare and eliminate them.”

Those are the cruel policies she and her brand of conservatives want to implement against liberals (anyone who doesn't think and look exactly like them) when they gain power. We have been forewarned.

[Me.]

2. Can She Be Sued For Something Or Another?

[Deep State Witch]

3. Serena Joy

Fucking Serena Joy. I hope she doesn't have a daughter or granddaughter.