Abortion Abolition Uprising

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Richard Benda

**Christians Against Tyranny** (**CAT**) is considered the abortion abolitionist counterpart to Students Against Fetusphobia America. They oppose the incremental approach to outlawing abortion on the basis that it "supports laws that allow abortions to still happen", something they believe the Christian God finds morally reprehensible. On numerous occasions, they have controversially called current pro-life laws "treasonous" (in the sense that they obey an ungodly government, rather than God Himself).

After the death of founder Jeffery Benda, the organization was renamed **Abortion Abolition Uprising**, or **AAU**.

## History

Christians Against Tyranny was created by Jeffery Benda and his son Richard, having gotten the idea from various Bible stories of people defying ungodly governments. Thanks to Jeffery and Richard's connections to various Christian fundamentalist organizations across the United States, the two were able to rally millions of supporters nationwide.

Richard Benda, in particular, was quite successful at recruiting people for his movement simply because a majority of them were abortion abolitionists themselves.

Jeffrey died in 2020 after contracting COVID-19. Before he passed away, however, he charged his son Richard and his wife Miranda with continuing CAT. Three months after Jeffrey's death, Jeffrey's wife Miranda and his son Richard renamed the organization Abortion Abolition Uprising, promoting an emphasis on resisting both Roe v. Wade and pro-life legislation.

## Ideology

AAU shares its abortion abolitionist beliefs with other abortion abolitionist groups like Free the Union. They champion the idea that abortion, the murder of an unborn child, must be abolished and that incremental pro-life bills are ineffective, ungodly, and ultimately a form of treason.

According to their official website, AAU members hold that any abortion abolition bill must have the following:

* Abortion is criminalized at conception.
* There are no exceptions for this criminalization.
* Equal protection for both unborn and born humans.
* Roe v Wade is unconstitutional and any law that acknowledges Roe v Wade is guilty of "idolatry".
* Roe v. Wade is to be rendered null and void.

They also controversially hold that pro-life organizations "deify" both Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court of the United States, citing various Bible passages that many in the pro-life movement claim have been taken out of context.

### "Treason" and "Tyranny"

A controversial stance that CAT members have held on numerous occasions is that pro-life bills, because they are made seemingly "in submission" to an ungodly United States government, are a form of treason against the Christian God and that such laws are "tyrannical", going so far as to argue that such pro-life laws are akin to forcing unborn children to live under "Americanized Nazism".

To back up their claims, they cite the following Bible passages:

* Romans 13, which holds that Christians are to submit to the government, but are also to defy it entirely if it passes laws the Bible deems "ungodly".
* Isaiah 10:1-2, which they believe argues that heartbeat bills are just as evil as Roe v. Wade itself, because they fail to save all unborn children from abortion.
* 2 Corinthians 4.

## Known members

* Jeffrey Benda (Founder and head from 2016-2020)
* Miranda Benda (Head from 2020-Present)
* Richard E. Benda (Head from 2020-present)
* Alonso K. Pinnock
* Amy B. Evans
* Cesar M. Wyss
* Christina B. Toussaint
* Dawn K. Jernigan
* Gertrude D. Olivarria
* Kristina S. Albano
* Leigh S. Ingram
* Maria P. Geiger
* Melanie R. Patterson
* Melissa A. Gibbons
* Richard E. Benda
* Sandra D. Tucker

## Gallery

Richard E. BendaCesar M. WyssAlonso K. PinnockAmy B. EvansChristina B. ToussaintDawn K. JerniganGertrude D. OlivarriaKristina S. AlbanoLeigh S. IngramMaria P. GeigerMelanie R. PattersonMelissa A. GibbonsSandra D. Tucker