Comment on U.S., Texas Attorney Who Drugged Wife's Drinks To Induce Abortion Sentenced to 180 days in jail
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 9 months agoDo 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 9 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 9 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”.