{"id":171,"date":"2026-05-27T18:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:19:55","slug":"nc-gop-lawmakers-propose-amendment-legalizing-murder-to-stop-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"NC GOP Lawmakers Propose Amendment Legalizing Murder to Stop Abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, <\/span><\/i><i><span>support us with a donation<\/span><\/i><i><span> of any size.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=169\">Vermont Becomes First State to Ban Pesticide Linked to Parkinson\u2019s Disease<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A GOP-proposed state constitutional amendment in North Carolina is seeking to make abortion completely illegal, adding in \u201cprotections\u201d for people who commit murder in order to stop a person from obtaining the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, abortion is banned in North Carolina beyond 12 weeks of pregnancy. The proposed amendment, sponsored by Republican state Reps. Keith Kidwell and Ben Moss, Jr., declares that \u201ca distinct and separate human life begins at the moment of fertilization,\u201d defining personhood as beginning at that point. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the amendment dubiously saying that its definitions are based on \u201cindisputable scientific fact,\u201d the document\u2019s authors provide no evidence backing their claims. Indeed, the scientific consensus is that a pregnancy does not begin until implantation, and, even then, defining an embryo as a legal \u201cperson\u201d with protections that outweigh the pregnant individual\u2019s rights is factually disputed, a far right talking point that threatens not just abortion rights, but also reproductive care in general.<\/p>\n<p>But the proposal by Kidwell and Moss goes further. By defining a fertilized egg as a person, the amendment includes additional language that would essentially legalize the murder of someone planning or participating in an abortion in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny person has the right to defend his or her own life or the life of another person, even by the use of deadly force if necessary, from willful destruction by another person,\u201d the amendment reads. <\/p>\n<p>Critics lambasted the proposal as a violent and deeply problematic means to limit abortion in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=167\">Maine Removes Trans Sports and Bathroom Ban From November Ballot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new North Carolina House bill would jail or authorize the murder of women due to their personal use of birth control, such as an IUD,\u201d journalist Jackie Singh wrote on X, alluding to birth control methods that prevent pregnancies by making implantation nearly impossible.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed amendment is also \u201ca \u2018get out of jail free\u2019 card for men who want to murder their partners,\u201d Signh added. \u201cAll they have to do is prove the women intended to use birth control or have an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Valenti, author of the <em>Abortion, Every Day<\/em> newsletter on Substack, also decried the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear \u2014 this means it would be perfectly fine to kill an abortion provider, an activist, or even someone who drives a friend to the clinic,\u201d Valenti wrote. \u201cAnyone who helps a woman get an abortion could be murdered, and their killer could claim it was justifiable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the measure is unlikely to advance very far in this legislative term, Valenti added that it should still be taken \u201cvery, very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposed amendment in North Carolina is \u201claying the groundwork now for laws they want to pass in ten or twenty years. With bills like this, Republicans are giving us a roadmap \u2014 why in the world would we ignore it?\u201d Valenti said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=165\">Trump White House Advances Plan Requiring Federal Workers to Sign NDAs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amendment has little chance of advancing, but should be taken \u201cvery seriously,\u201d abortion rights advocates maintain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NC GOP Lawmakers Propose Amendment Legalizing Murder to Stop Abortions - 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