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(80,178 posts) Tue Feb 17, 2026, 02:58 PM 5 hrs ago

A Tennessee Lawmaker, Monty Fritts Called for Executing Women who seek abortions

A Tennessee Lawmaker Called for Executing Women
The comments were captured on video at a Washington County GOP meeting

Nice to see another outlet picking up on the fact that a Republican candidate for governor in Tennessee confirmed to us he believes women who make their own reproductive decisions and get abortions should face the death penalty.

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2026-02-17T19:26:57.064Z

A Tennessee Lawmaker Called for Executing Women
The comments were captured on video at a Washington County GOP meeting
https://wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/a-tennessee-lawmaker-called-for-executing

Rachel Wells Jan 15, 2026
Monty Fritts — A News Update

If you’ve followed me since the beginning, you know the name Monty Fritts. He is a Representative in the Tennessee House known for his extremist views on abortion and “liberty,” and now he’s called for women to be executed for having abortions.

Of course, he didn’t say this on the record in a general public-facing setting. The remarks were recorded last August at a Washington County Republican Party meeting titled “God, Guns and Guts,” which Kristi Burke, 34, a muralist and content creator, attended. The meeting was billed as a routine GOP event that took place in Jonesborough, Tennessee, just months after a woman in that same town was denied prenatal care because her physician disagreed with her “unmarried lifestyle.”

Burke provided the following firsthand account exclusively to TN Repro News.

Kristi Burke, eyewitness account:

On August 26, 2025, I attended the publicly posted “God, Guns and Guts” legislative event in Jonesborough, Tennessee with four others to hear directly from Republican lawmakers. No credentials were checked, and we sat quietly in the back as legislators discussed their priorities for the coming year. During the event, Representative Monty Fritts spoke about proposing the death penalty for rape and abortion, stating that if you “kill a baby with a pill or a scalpel from an embryo on up, we ought to execute you.” My group laughed in disbelief.

After roughly 15–20 minutes, sheriff’s deputies approached us and told us we had to leave for “causing a disturbance.” I questioned why our laughter constituted a disturbance while cheering and applause from the rest of the audience did not. When I pressed the issue, the deputy responded that it was “because they were clapping for something they agreed with.” When we refused to leave, additional officers arrived and threatened arrest for disorderly conduct, and we exited the building.........................