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Abortion Hypocrisy in Texas — Women’s History Month
Mason Herring from Harris County, Texas, poisoned his wife’s water with abortion-inducing medication, misoprostol, on seven occasions and will spend 180 days in jail.
180 days.
For poisoning his wife and trying to abort his third child — a daughter who was born ten weeks early and has developmental delays causing her to need regular therapy.
In a state that wouldn’t allow Kate Cox, whose “fetus had full trisomy 18, a lethal fetal anomaly,” an emergency abortion even though “continuing the pregnancy posed a threat to Cox’s health.”
Cox fled to a different state to get an abortion, knowing she would be better off elsewhere.
In the same state, Miranda Michel was pregnant with twins who had “zero percent chance of viability” but was still refused an abortion despite knowing her babies would die at birth.
Erin A. Snider wasn’t offered a D&C — a surgery that clears the uterine lining after a miscarriage to spare women the physical trauma — during her miscarriage, and instead was given Advil and then, finally, fentanyl when the pain was unbearable.
Her physicians told her their hands were tied due to the Dobbs decision — a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court centering on the state’s authority to regulate…
