Tennessee Republicans propose bill that would allow the death penalty for women who have an abortion
Source: The Independent
Monday 23 February 2026 13:26 EST
Republicans in Tennessee have proposed a bill that would allow women who have had an abortion to be sentenced to death.
House Bill 570 allows for the death penalty to be imposed on women who have abortions, as well as charging women involved in the homicide of her own unborn child with homicide. It was co-sponsored by state Rep. Jody Barrett and Senator Mark Pody, who sponsored the bill, though it is not yet on the calendar for consideration, according to The Tennessean.
The legislation would allow prosecutors to charge women who obtain abortions with fetal homicide. This crime is punishable by life imprisonment, life without parole, and in some cases, the death penalty.
Tennessee has some of the strictest abortion laws in the U.S. since its trigger ban took place in 2022. The Human Life Protection Act prevents all abortions from fertilization and there are no exceptions for rape or incest.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tennessee-death-penalty-abortion-b2925988.html
rampartd
(4,441 posts)bluestarone
(21,868 posts)Allows a guillotine for THAT boy (MAN) that caused that pregnancy?
mpcamb
(3,212 posts)bluestarone
(21,868 posts)sop
(18,163 posts)Sweet Rosie Red
(50 posts)Lets have a bill charging them with impregnation of an unwilling mother With the same penalties!
Keep it in your pants boys! Put a ring on it!
Ritabert
(2,232 posts)bucolic_frolic
(54,741 posts)whathehell
(30,417 posts)Remember: Women aren't "sows" just because Men are pigs.
otchmoson
(312 posts)do miscarriages (nature's abortion) fit into this scheme?
Ol Janx Spirit
(898 posts)https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tennessee-death-penalty-abortion-b2925988.html
However, you know these people will charge a woman if they even suspect she had a glass of wine on the night she conceived....
Pretty horrible people.
Grokenstein
(6,322 posts)The important thing is, the state gets to murder someone while Family Values Republicans jack off to it.
Ol Janx Spirit
(898 posts)They also don't think the government can do anything right, but they are totally comfortable putting them in charge of executing people--especially if it fulfils their "pro-life" agenda apparently.
hy·poc·ri·sy
/həˈpäkrəsē/
noun
1. the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
2. any person claiming to be MAGA
AverageOldGuy
(3,643 posts). . . in the closing scene of the movie "Chinatown:"
AZJonnie
(3,409 posts)I have a few bucks lying around to invest in something, and this could turn into a real growth industry.
ALSO FUCK THIS MISOGYNIST, PATRIARCHAL BULLSHIT!!!
wolfie001
(7,469 posts)Up there with Hitler's cabal.
GiqueCee
(3,753 posts)... I think the Christo-fascists make Hitler's crew look like choir boys. The Christian Nationalists defile Christ's teachings in their diseased effort to establish a theocracy based on lies, and wrap themselves in the blood-soaked cloak of über-religiosity. As vile as they were, the Nazis didn't hide behind a perverted interpretation of the Nazz* and his wisdom.
* Check out recordings of Lord Buckley's "The Nazz" They're probably on YouTube somewhere. Everything else is.
Dan
(5,052 posts)niyad
(131,159 posts)Dan
(5,052 posts)Thank you for the update.
Bayard
(29,180 posts)So Christian of these rethuglicans. I'd like to see the Bible passage pushing their opinion.
Gary 50
(485 posts)Jody Barrett and Mark Pody would wish they were never born.
mwb970
(12,120 posts)I am amazed by how out-of-step the Fascist Party is with the American people.
xuplate
(193 posts)the more children for the party of pedos to abuse and the unwanted ones are the most vulnerable.
Godot51
(754 posts)in Tennessee for impregnating a woman and then abandoning her, not supporting her, or not supporting the resulting child?
niyad
(131,159 posts)Skittles
(170,546 posts)THERE I FIXED IT
delisen
(7,305 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(10,846 posts)How about the dudes who slay a date over the fact that she did not 'behave'?
Face it, this is misogyny at its finest. They just want to strut around and fell better about their own slimeball behavior.
I miss certain aspects of living in Tennessee, but dealing with guys who are so insecure that they have to go all 'incel' on the female population just so that they can fee superior is not one of them.
I await the news articles about these dudes and their 'sexual proclivities'.
Ilsa
(64,136 posts)FakeNoose
(41,052 posts)Scrivener7
(59,148 posts)electric_blue68
(26,615 posts)yourout
(8,766 posts)Next job for ICE
chouchou
(3,023 posts)..get the hell far away...far away from idiotic hillbillies..
COL Mustard
(8,101 posts)Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
dedl67
(199 posts)With every terrible law that is passed in a red state, many smart, ambitious, talented people leave and move to blue states. Because of that, the red states become even more dominated by the stupid people in the state. Then they pass even worse laws, which drives even more smart, ambitious, talented people away. That is called a vicious cycle, and it is causing the US to become more and more divided into states which are progressive, with a high quality of life, and states that are backward, with a low quality of life.
CTyankee
(68,012 posts)Vinca
(53,663 posts)MrsCheaplaugh
(273 posts)Also, welcome to the Republic of Gilead.
Clouds Passing
(7,684 posts)eringer
(521 posts)The military base straddles Kentucky and Tennessee. Do you just wait until the soldier crosses the border or are you going to hunt them down? And how long are you going to hold them until they are stoned to death? Will the executions be televised? So many questions for the Tennessee legislature to struggle with.
24601
(4,139 posts)ffr
(23,348 posts)I suppose punishing the women that survive with death, makes it certain that becoming pregnant is playing Russian Roulette with their lives. If they have a successful pregnancy that comes to term, congratulations, you're allowed to live.
But if you fail to carry the pregnancy to term and either have a life saving abortion, the Epstein Death Panels, I mean, Republican Death Panels, can still sentence you to death. Yippie! Taliban justice, right there in a nutshell!
We love you, Mr. Trump!

maliaSmith
(188 posts)How many women in Tenn. will continue to vote for the GOP?
electric_blue68
(26,615 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,468 posts)...the Republic of Motherfucking Gilead?
maxsolomon
(38,491 posts)what are the odds this passes? less than 50%?