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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] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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 8 hours ago

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