Benen reports on another law, this time in Iowa, that could give citizens the right to kill abortion doctors.
A criminal defense attorney in Des Moines told the Iowa Independent, "[House File 7] explicitly provides that people have a right to defend themselves or others at any place they are legally allowed to be. That would definitely include sidewalks or streets outside of clinics. They could attempt to kill a physician or a clinic worker, and if they did so while believing they were protecting another person, which would be defined under House File 153 as a fetus, then, under this law, they would have the right to do that."
Un-freaking-believable. It's important to note that 28 and 29 Republicans, respectively, co-sponsored these bills. These aren't fringe bits of legislation proposed by a far-right wackaloon lawmaker. This is THE mainstream Republican Party. And they're insane.
So let's recap. That's Georgia, Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa. Republicans in those states have either tried to decriminalize the murder of an abortion doctor (or pregnant woman seeking an abortion), or they've tried to criminalize miscarriages. Meanwhile, the congressional Republicans have de-funded Planned Parenthood, while also cutting the budgets for Family Planning, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, and Maternal and Child Health Block Grants.
Pro-life indeed.