Kill the Bill, not the Women: NC HB1232

In case you’re unaware, there’s a bill in North Carolina that wants to criminalize womanhood. This is the most blatantly Draconian misogyny I’ve ever encountered, and I will most assuredly vote against it. I will divorce my husband if he doesn’t vote against it. I’m calling and emailing my state rep everydamnday until November, when I’ll help vote him out.

If you live in Ben Moss’s district, vote him out: he sponsored this bill. Yes, he’s withdrawn his sponsorship since Kip Kidwell, the author of this atrocity was primaried and the public is enraged. But that doesn’t change the fact that he wanted this badly enough to put his name on it.

If our elected officials continue writing misogynistic bills, it may be best for human women to learn from the animal kingdom. I’m specifically thinking of octopus, orb weavers, praying mantises, and black widows.

These tandem hits on women—these draconian laws combined with the farce that rape prosecution is in this country have an endgame, and they’re coming for our vote and our bank accounts next. Let’s stop them. Dead in their tracks, as it were.

“Bill Summaries: H1232 (2025-2026 Session)

Bill H 1232 (2025-2026)

Summary date: May 13 2026

Subject to approval by a majority of voters during the 2026 general election, adds new Section 39 to Article I of the North Carolina Constitution as follows. Specifies that human life begins at fertilization. Recognizes a new human life as an individual person, entitled to the protection of the laws of this State from the moment of fertilization until the moment of natural death. Holds persons willfully seeking to destroy the life of another, at any stage of life, or who succeeds in doing so, accountable for first-degree murder, or attempted murder. Specifies that any person has the right to defend the life of themselves or another, even by use of deadly force if necessary, from willful destruction by another person. Specifies that the State has an interest and a duty to defend innocent persons from willful destruction of their lives and to punish those who take the lives of persons, born or unborn, who have not committed any crime punishable by death. If approved, effective January 1, 2027” (UNC Chapel Hill 2026).

Did you catch that? “Specifies that any person has the right to defend the life of themselves or another, even by use of deadly force if necessary, from willful destruction by another person.”

Sounds like they want to legalize killing women. I imagine a murder defense that would hold goes like this: “I heard her say she was thinking about abortion.”

This manifesto against women would include IUDs and in vitro, essentially making it a capital offense for a woman to make a decision about her body. These misogynistic pricks want to amend this to the state constitution, and I’m ready to grab a torch and pitchfork and march on Raleigh.

I take a small measure of comfort in the fact that Kip Kidwell (can’t make up this ironic name) was primaried in his district, but it isn’t a beacon of hope: the bill that wants to legalize murdering women is still alive (State Politics 2026).

Enough is edamnough. Parental rights for rapists. Legal killing of women who don’t want to be puppy mills for rapists. This will not stand. There will be a reckoning.

Works Cited

“Bill Summaries: H1232 (2025–2026 Session).” Legislative Reporting Service, School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 13 May 2026, https://lrs.sog.unc.edu/bill-summaries-lookup/H/1232/2025-2026%20Session/H1232. Accessed 28 May 2026.

“State Politics.” The News & Observer, 20 May 2026, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article315906111.html. Accessed 28 May 2026.