Comment on U.S., Texas Attorney Who Drugged Wife's Drinks To Induce Abortion Sentenced to 180 days in jail
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 months ago
in texas, an abortion with the woman’s consent is punishable by life in prison, but an abortion without the woman’s consent only gets you six months. Once again, I’m forced to conclude that republicans are specifically against a woman’s consent and that anything about “the right to life” is absolute bullshit.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe he would have gotten life in prison if the baby he tried to kill actually died. 🤷🏻♀️ The baby survived but with birth defects.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Do you think that a doctor that attempted an abortion but the fetus survived would be treated any differently than a doctor that completed an abortion? It’s the procedure that’s criminalized, not the result.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There have been plenty of cases of attempted murder in which the criminal gets a lighter sentence because the victim is still alive. Don’t be mad at me. Blame the stupid criminal justice system.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 months ago
but this isn’t attempted murder, it’s a different crime. You’re substituting your intuition about the law for what the law actually is. The law in Texas does not make abortion a type of murder, it makes performing an abortion a crime in and of itself regardless of whether the fetus dies. The text of the law is that it’s a crime to “knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman”.
YeetPics@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Yea, we already know it’s in Texas.