Can doctors face the death penalty for performing illegal abortions?

They’re talking about it in Texas:

Doctors who perform illegal abortions in Texas could be subject to the death penalty because of the way the Legislature has strung together recent statutes, according to the state’s top prosecutor association.

By defining a fetus as “an individual” in 2003, and then making it a criminal act in 2005 to perform certain abortions, legislators might have unintentionally created a scenario in which physicians could be charged with the death of a child younger than 6 ““ a crime subject to capital punishment, according to the Texas District and County Attorneys Association.

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