The good Christians of Texas are out for blood. They want to kill women who have abortions.

You can read across the top of the illustration above what I click on every morning in pretty much the order I check out the websites. With “Morning Joe” on the TV, first I check my overnight email and then look at HUFFPOST primarily to see what their lead story is and to glance at what their editors consider the primary stories of the morning.

Seeing the opening page (above) caused me to exclaim “holly sh*t” – well, not outloud, but this is what came to mind. The title “Texas eyes death penalty for abortions” above a photograph of a lethal injection gurney evokes the image of a woman who had commited what the good Christians of Texas consider the capital crime of murder being strapped in and put to death (read article here).

Righteous Christians would be sitting in the gallery behind glass observing her take her last breath on her journey to Hell.

Perhaps they’d actually be alllowed in the chamber and the execution could be televised. They’d see this as a deterent although it could backfire when people see what it looks like when a woman who doesn’t look like a criminal is put to death by the state.

The article says that a doctor who performed an abortion would also be guilty of murder. I assume that anybody else that assisted in the women getting an abortion would be subject to the death penalty as well. Perhaps Texas will use a group hanging or will bring back the firing squad so they all could be executed at the same time. Iran employs group hanging (below), so why not Texas?

I couldnt find a suitable “holy sh*t” illlustration for this blog among these so I figured I’d take a selfie to try to convey how this made me feel.

Addendum:

Having an abortion would, if these members of the Texas GOP have their way, be added to the following crimes where the death penality could be used:

Pursuant to Texas Penal Code Section 19.03, the following crimes constitute Capital Murder in Texas:

• murder of a peace officer or fireman who is acting in the lawful discharge of an official duty and who the person knows is a peace officer or fireman;
• murder during the commission or attempted commission of kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction or retaliation, or terroristic threat;
• murder for remuneration or promise of remuneration or employing another to commit murder for remuneration or promise of remuneration;
• murder during escape or attempted escape from a penal institution;
• murder, while incarcerated in a penal institution, of a correctional employee or with the intent to establish, maintain, or participate in a combination or in the profits of a combination;
• murder while incarcerated in a penal institution for a conviction of murder or capital murder;
• murder while incarcerated in a penal institution serving a life sentence or a 99-year sentence for a conviction of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, or aggravated robbery;
• murder of more than one person during the same criminal transaction or during different criminal transactions but the murders are committed pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct;
• murder of an individual under 10 years of age, or older than 10 years of age but younger than 15 years of age; or
• murder in retaliation for or on account of the service or status of the other person as a judge or justice of the supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, a court of appeals, a district court, a criminal district court

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