TX: Conspired miscarriage case tests fairness of new law (mom not charged)

[rainbow4321]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D88G76LG0.html


Basoria had bruises on her eye, arm and wrist, so authorities assumed she had been beaten. Her boyfriend, 18-year-old Gerardo "Jerry" Flores, was charged with murder under the state's new law protecting the unborn.

But it wasn't that simple. Basoria eventually told authorities she had been trying to kill her unborn sons for weeks and finally asked Flores to step on her stomach. "When I was four months pregnant, I began to show, and at that time I decided that I should have gotten an abortion," Basoria wrote in an affidavit.

The Texas law, like many others across the nation, bans prosecution of mothers because they have a legal right to end pregnancies. So Basoria can't be charged. That fact has attorneys on both sides questioning the fairness of a statute that considers one person's crime another person's constitutional right.

"How can two people conspire to do something like this and only one of them be punished? How can that be fair?" defense attorney Ryan Deaton said. Deaton also said the fetuses may have already been dead when Flores agreed to press his K-Swiss sneaker, and the weight of his 180-pound frame, into Basoria's belly.

[Darth_Kitten]

1. How terrible.

:(

I'm speechless. :(

[Benhurst]

2. Abortion, BushAmerican style. NT

[Warpy]

3. Squeal laws

were originally cited as the reason these two poor ignorant teenagers decided to take the situation into their own hands. The girl just couldn't face having her parents know.

This is what stupid restrictions against abortion DO. They make sure women get injured or killed.

[etherealtruth]

4. I am not really comfortable with abortion...

... but, will do everything in my power to keep it "safe, legal and (hopefully) rare." Restrictive laws only hurt (or kill) women.

[librechik]

5. oy

when natural behavior is made illegal, people will find bizarre ways to do it anyway.

Liberals are against too many laws. But we need one to protect women from illegal dangerous abortions.

[sandnsea]

6. uh, legal abortion

Dumbasses. They actually could both be charged because neither one of them is a DOCTOR, qualified to perform LEGAL abortions. That's the whole point of having legal abortions, to stop this kind of insanity as well as backroom abortions that are dangerous to the woman and the fetus.