Women who obtained an abortion or doctors who performed one could have beeb charged with assault or criminal homicide
A bill considered by members of the Texas House of Representatives this week would have criminalized abortions and opened up the possibility for women and physicians to receive the death penalty.
Despite the bill’s apparent failure, it was a stark example of the kind of proposed abortion bans that challenge federal judicial precedent that are under consideration in state legislatures across the country. “My commitment to advancing the pro-life cause is stronger than ever,” Leach wrote, “and that’s why I cannot in good conscience support House Bill 896.”
At the hearing, the Republican legislator who sponsored the bill, Rep. Tony Tinderholt, pushed for his idea to ban abortion in the penal code. Farrar said the text of the bill showed a clear intention to contradict Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion.
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