[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----FLORIDA

[Rick Halperin]

Sept. 27



FLORIDA:

Florida Christians push to classify abortion as capital murder - punishable by 
the death penalty


Evangelical Christians in Florida are pushing for a ballot initiative in 2018 
that would not only make abortion a crime, but re-classify the procedure as 
1st-degree murder.

According to Hemant Mehta at The Friendly Atheist, anti-choice activist group 
Abolish Abortion Florida has launched a petition calling for an amendment to 
the state constitution that deems medical termination of a pregnancy to be a 
premeditated murder under Florida state law - making women who have abortions 
and their doctors eligible for the death penalty.

"The people of Florida murder 72,000 babies every year while the 'pro life' 
politicians we've elected to protect them attempt to regulate the practice of 
child sacrifice as if it were healthcare, instead of addressing it as murder," 
the petition said. "Contrary to widespread misinformation, the right to murder 
humans is not protected by the Constitution and our legislature is not bound by 
any law or duty to aid or abet the Supreme Court in their attempted perversion 
of it."

The group is hoping to gather enough signatures to land the statute on the 2018 
election ballot.

Christian News Wire said, "Under the proposed amendment, anyone who performs or 
procures an abortion would be charged with first degree, pre-meditated murder. 
'Abortion' would include any abortifacient drug or device that can kill an 
embryo by preventing implantation, as well as the intentional destruction of 
unwanted IVF embryos. The amendment would define life as beginning at 
fertilization rather than 'conception,' and declares that 'abortion deprives an 
innocent human being of the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit 
of happiness."

"They're pro-life and want to see women who get abortions executed," wrote 
Mehta, "in case you needed more proof that Christians are often hypocrites."

"No word yet on whether the women and their doctors should be murdered by way 
of a firing squad or lethal injection," he quipped. "But I sent them an email 
to find out."

(source: rawstory.com)