His wife Catherine Herring, who has filed for divorce, told the court the jail sentence was not long enough. She said their 1-year-old daughter, their third child, was born about 10 weeks premature, has developmental delays and attends therapy eight times a week.
“I do not believe that 180 days is justice for attempting to kill your child seven separate times,” Catherine Herring said.
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?
It was always about controlling women and their sexuality.
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.
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.
Except it’s Texas, so I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Let us still hope it stands a chance one way or another.
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.
Duh
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.
I think it’s because this case predates Texas’s new abortion ban, not that that makes this any better.
tHe bI-yUh-bUhllL sEz sO-wUh!!!
Needs a clap emoji after every syllable.
Would that have saved me from all the down-votes?
If the mother had tried for a legal abortion, she’d get the death penalty
TX when man abortion 🤗
TX when woman abortion 😡
It should be the death penalty for both
Go down to the local foundling hospital and ask to sit with some of the wards of the state. The children born with birth defects so terrible that they require 24/7 nursing and will die before they turn two years old. They need compassionate volunteers with strong constitutions, because the situation is so depressing.
For serious, wtf.
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.
Maybe he would have gotten life in prison if the embryo/fetus he tried to kill actually died. 🤷🏻♀️ The baby survived but with developmental delays.
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.
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.
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”.
but with development delays.
Yea, we already know it’s in Texas.
If abortion is illegal because a parasitic clump of cells is a human, then this charge should be 25-life.
U.S., Texas
What is this, keyword stuffing?
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Yeah that makes sense… /s
