I’m mildly optimistic that this judgment can now be used as case law for all the prosecution efforts against women and doctors as a result of Texas’ fucked up abortion law.
Comment on U.S., Texas Attorney Who Drugged Wife's Drinks To Induce Abortion Sentenced to 180 days in jail
0x815@feddit.de 8 months ago
Just correct me if I’m mistaken, but a quick research revealed that when a woman in Texas gets an abortion she is handed a life-long prison sentence and a fine of USD 10,000. A doctor who performs an abortion gets also a life in prison, looses his licence, and pays a fine of USD 100,000.
But a man poisoning a woman with abortion medication get 180 days in jail, no fine.
I’m not a legal expert, but that seems to have nothing to do with justice but rather with controlling women, right?
Bakachu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Except it’s Texas, so I’m wouldn’t hold my breath.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 8 months ago
Let us still hope it stands a chance one way or another.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 8 months ago
it’s because the real problem is women having any amount of power. abortion that is forced on her is fine, because it establishes that women are subhuman and can have things forced upon them.
Steve@startrek.website 8 months ago
Duh
crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
This is actually written in the Bible as the official Christian methodology for abortions. The man literally poisons his wife to induce it as a test of her loyalty, in numbers 5:11-31. Yes that’s right, abortion is sanctioned in the Bible exactly as Herring did it to his wife. I don’t know if this factored into the court ruling, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
jmfwnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
I think it’s because this case predates Texas’s new abortion ban, not that that makes this any better.
Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 8 months ago
tHe bI-yUh-bUhllL sEz sO-wUh!!!
Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Needs a clap emoji after every syllable.
Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Would that have saved me from all the down-votes?
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 8 months ago
It was always about controlling women and their sexuality.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t think it’s so much about controlling women and their sexuality as much as it is a man wants to ejaculate inside a woman without the consequences of producing a child.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Even that’s incorrect.
It isn’t about not dealing with the consequences, abortion would be the easiest solution in that case.
No it’s simply that women usually have the ultimate say in whether a baby is kept, at least in modern western society. And that is women having too much power.