Some social media posts are using the criminal sentencing of a man in Texas to criticize the state’s strict abortion law
A Texas law that criminalizes abortion went into effect in August 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
, drugged his wife’s drinks aiming to induce an abortion. He was initially charged with felony assault to induce abortion, but pleaded guilty Feb. 7 to injury to a child and assault on a pregnant person. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years probation., women who get one are not subject to criminal or civil penalties, according to experts and the text of Texas’ abortion laws.
Grossman pointed to an April 2022 case in which a Starr County, Texas, woman was arrested and charged with murder after she had what authorities called a self-induced abortion.
Doctors who administer abortions can be charged under Texas’ 2022 abortion law that makes it a felony to provide an abortion and is punishable with up to life in prison. But the law explicitly states women who have abortions won’t face legal or civil penalties.Because “17 million immigrants” were “let in” the U.S, “ foot and mouth disease is back. We got rid of that fifty years ago.”
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