Mastriano said women who violated an abortion ban should be charged with murder (2019)

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doug-mastriano-said-2019-women-violated-proposed-abortion-ban-charged-rcna49601

State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, said in 2019 that women should be charged with murder if they violated his proposed abortion ban.

In an interview with Pennsylvania radio station WITF, Mastriano was pressed about a bill he sponsored that would generally bar abortions when a fetal heartbeat could first be detected, usually around six weeks. Mastriano’s remarks in that interview were previously unreported.

Under his proposed legislation, Mastriano was asked whether a woman who decided to get an abortion at 10 weeks gestation would be charged with murder. Critics of the bill Mastriano backed, and of other "heartbeat bills," say the approximate six-week timeframe is often before many women know they are pregnant.

"OK, let’s go back to the basic question there," Mastriano said. "Is that a human being? Is that a little boy or girl? If it is, it deserves equal protection under the law."

Asked if he was saying yes, they should be charged with murder, Mastriano responded: "Yes, I am."

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Of course this story contains the lie about fetal heartbeat at 6 weeks.

[J_William_Ryan]

1. "...women who violated an abortion ban should be charged with murder."

The irony is that Mastriano and others on the neo-fascist right didn’t think Roe would be overturned.

They would make such statements to pander to the base knowing they’d never have to follow through.

[Nevilledog]

3. Mastriano is a real extremist. I think he absolutely still believes this.

[dchill]

2. The "fetal heartbeat at 6 weeks..." is not science...

... it's an article of faith. A fetish. Try making THAT go away with soldier/preacher/politicians-of-war like Mastriano around wielding their terrible, swift swords.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. K&R

[Hortensis]

5. Excellent! RW pols saving it for when it's too late to

vote them out are probably growling and puling their hair.