It’s especially notable that Ms. Hawkins’s own national spokesperson and senior ambassador Autumn Higashi said on video, “If a woman kills a child outside the womb, then I think that she should be prosecuted for that. So, if a woman kills a child inside the womb, then I don’t think that there’s any difference.”
The logical consequence of banning abortion is and always has been sending people to jail for pregnancy outcomes, including but not limited to self-managed abortions taking place outside of medical settings. Poor people and women of color will be targeted most.
New video footage shows Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) failing to denounce women going to jail for self-managed abortion.
Wright doubled down on his desire to punish abortion providers including those women who self-manage their own abortions
“Of course they should,” the 66-year-old said on the video released by Reproaction, which has drawn national media attention.
Representative Ron Wright, who was elected in 2018, responds to questions about whether or not women who induce their own abortions should be punished with jail in a video released by abortion access advocacy group Reproaction.
When he spoke with us, he plainly endorsed sending women to jail for abortion.
Abortion pills, including mifepristone and misoprostol, have been used to end pregnancies in the United States for more than 20 years.
Reproaction, an abortion rights advocacy group, published a video May 30 asking Wright what he thought of women going to jail for self-managed abortions.