- State legislators stayed up well into the morning hearing emotional testimony about a proposed abortion ban.
House Bill 896 would criminalize abortion and classify it as a homicide.
Women who have abortions could be sentenced to the death penalty.
How essentially one is okay with subjecting a woman to the death penalty for the exact… to do to her the exact same thing that one is alleging that she is doing to a child,” said State Rep. Victoria Neave, a Democrat from Dallas.
“I think it’s important to remember that if a drunk driver kills a pregnant woman, they get charged twice.
What I’m doing is equalizing the law,” said State Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a Republican from Arlington.
The bill now goes before the full Texas House for debate. »
