Cassy Fiano

Texas infanticide bill would decriminalize murdering an infant

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Anthony (Los Angeles) says:

May 6, 2009 at 11:14 am

Y’know, I genuinely sympathize with Fiano’s outrage over infanticide, but I have to wonder if this outrage hasn’t lead her to unintentionally misrepresent Ferrar’s bill. From section 19.08 (b):

An offense under this section is a state jail felony.

It reduces the charge from murder, which is usually a capital crime in Texas, but it is still a felony. It does not, as Ms. Fiano claims, “decriminalize infanticide.” The legislative intent looks to be to account for cases where the mother is “out of her head” from post-partum depression or some other mental illness and to spare them the death penalty in those cases. One can agree or disagree with that as a matter of policy and morality, but it is not the same as decriminalizing infanticide.

I’m no supporter of Planned Parenthood by a long shot, and from the looks of her background I doubt I’d ever be a Ferrar voter, but Ms. Fiano’s anger has lead her to be grossly unfair to Ms. Ferrar.

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