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It isn’t just FR. The large chunk of the pro-life movement seems to be upset about this.

The left has been telling that lie about pro-lifers wanting to jail women for years.

So Trump has a Westboro Baptist moment to prove them right.

States relied on various techniques of statutory interpretation, along with the generally held belief that women were victims of their abortions, to support their decisions to refrain from prosecuting women. As the appeals court in the District of Columbia wrote in 1901, “[b]y its terms, [D.C. Code Ann. § 809 (1901)] applies to the person or persons committing the act which produces the miscarriage, and not to the person upon whom it is committed, notwithstanding it may be done with her knowledge and consent. Not being liable to indictment thereunder, she is not an accomplice in the legal sense.”6 Based on the fact that abortion was dangerous and often fatal up to the 19th century, women were seen as victims. In addition, another main reason for the non-prosecution of women is that relieving women from criminal liability provided states with a better chance of achieving convictions against abortionists—the principal.

60 posted on 03/30/2016 3:28:29 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory. And He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)

61 posted on 03/30/2016 3:29:15 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory. And He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)

Yes, abortions back then were significantly more dangerous to the woman compared to today. Forensic science has also improved significantly since then as well. Thus the ability to convict is must easier.

Punishment for a crime doesn’t necessarily mean jail time. But I guess that point was overlooked as well as the secondary part of that statement which included it would need to be discussed.

Thanks. This underlines the legal basis for treating the woman as a victim and not as a perp.

I am willing to leave individual moral judgment to
God. What I want the this-worldly justice system to do, is to shut down the abortion industry —— which you can ONLY do by framing your proposals as woman-protective legislation.

This cannot be doubted by anyone who actually knows the history and the way the political process works in this country.