I, Richard X. Thripp, Sovereign President of the Thripp Republic, seeing that it is in the best interest of humanity at all levels to increase our numbers and sanctify and protect all forms of human life from strong to weak, young to old, and able-bodied to infirmed, hereby criminalize all human or human fetal abortions in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters by any and all citizens of the Thripp Republic, which shall be defined as any abortions occurring on or after the 84th day of pregnancy after implantation of the human zygote into the lining of the mother’s uterus, and shall not apply retro-actively to new citizens of the Thripp Republic for past crimes.
Moreover, both mother and abortion practitioner in said cases shall be guilty of a first-degree felony of murder in the first degree, including, but not limited to, in cases of rape, incest, Down syndrome or other chromosomal defect, birth defect, genetic anomaly, physical deformity, financial difficulty, contraceptive failure, inability to support or care for the child, unwed mother, mental problems of either the mother or child, coercion, nor endangerment of the life of the mother.
Furthermore, any abortion practitioner having found to be a citizen of the Thripp Republic and having performed more than three (3) abortions in the 2nd or 3rd trimester while being a citizen of the Thripp Republic shall be guilty of crimes against humanity, barred from practicing medicine for life, and classified as an enemy combatant, but shall not be guilty of war crimes nor classified as a prisoner of war.
Punishment in all cases shall be extradition to the United States of America, the Netherlands, or the People’s Republic of China.
Any civil servant of the Thripp Republic found to be advocating abortion shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
The Sovereign President of the Thripp Republic shall reserve the right to issue pardons to mothers who have committed abortion, but only to mothers who solemnly swear to be born-again Christians in any denomination except Catholicism, because of its exceedingly corrupt nature.