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Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women (www.propublica.org)

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The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs.”

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Abortion is MURDER so why are Republicans trying to Find Exceptions to MURDER? Or is Abortion NOT Murder?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

The women dying are actually ones trying to have children. Collateral damage in the war against abortion, some might say. But intolerable if your goal is to get people to have more children (which is really at the heart of the anti-abortion right).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I know you're doing a bit, and I'm pro abortion too, but there are exceptions to murder. Famously, self defence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If you want to be that pedantic, no, self defense is not murder. Killing and murder are two different things. For killing to be murder it has to be legally unjustified.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah that's the point, it's an exception where killing is not murder.