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New York Magazine reports:
A total abortion ban criminalizing the procedure and classifying it as a homicide cleared a committee Tuesday and will now be debated at the Texas House of Representatives.
If House Bill 896 becomes law, abortion could carry penalties ranging from a state jail felony to a capital felony, and patients who seek the procedure could in theory be punished with the death penalty.
The legislation, also known as the Abolition of Abortion Act, was introduced by Republican state Rep. Tony Tinderholt. The measure, which he also sponsored in 2017 before it died in committee, stipulates that embryos have the same rights as a “human child” starting at the moment of conception.
Heavy.com reports:
The conservative representative from Arlington, Texas has been married five times, twice to his first wife, Kimberly Anne Johnson. Originally from Minnesota, the 48-year-old is currently married to wife Bethany Tyler, who used to be a cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys.
Even though he’s been divorced four times, Tinderholt believes the sanctity of marriage only belongs between a man and a woman. He made a handwritten complaint to fight the State Attorney General’s office, which allowed two women to get married after 30 years together, but he sent the letter to the wrong judge.
The Washington Post reports:
“God’s word says, ‘He who sheds man’s blood, by man — the civil government — his blood will be shed,’” said Sonya Gonnella, quoting the Book of Genesis and asking lawmakers to “repent with us.”
Announcing herself as a “follower of the lord Jesus Christ,” Gonnella was among hundreds of people who testified in a marathon hearing that stretched from Monday into early Tuesday before the Texas House’s Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence.
It was the first time in the state’s history, committee members said, that public testimony had been heard on a measure holding women criminally liable for their abortions.