Texas man sentenced to 180 days in jail for drugging wife’s drinks to induce an abortion

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Texas man sentenced to 180 days in jail for drugging wife's drinks to induce an abortion

A Texas man who drugged his wife’s drinks in an attempt to induce an abortion has been sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years on probation.

apnews.com

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who drugged his wife’s drinks in an attempt to induce an abortion was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years on probation.

Mason Herring, a 39-year-old Houston attorney, pleaded guilty Wednesday to injury to a child and assault of a pregnant person. He had initially been charged with felony assault to induce abortion.

Catherine Herring, who has filed for divorce, told the court the jail sentence was not long enough. She said their 1-year-old daughter, their third child, was born about 10 weeks premature, has developmental delays and attends therapy eight times a week.
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Pregnant & boozing is a good way to assure your child is going to be born with life-long problems. And he's a lawyer? Here is his law firm: oilrigslawyer.com

The stars at night...

 

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Texas man sentenced to 180 days in jail for drugging wife's drinks to induce an abortion

A Texas man who drugged his wife’s drinks in an attempt to induce an abortion has been sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years on probation.

apnews.com

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who drugged his wife’s drinks in an attempt to induce an abortion was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years on probation.

Mason Herring, a 39-year-old Houston attorney, pleaded guilty Wednesday to injury to a child and assault of a pregnant person. He had initially been charged with felony assault to induce abortion.

Catherine Herring, who has filed for divorce, told the court the jail sentence was not long enough. She said their 1-year-old daughter, their third child, was born about 10 weeks premature, has developmental delays and attends therapy eight times a week.
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Pregnant & boozing is a good way to assure your child is going to be born with life-long problems. And he's a lawyer? Here is his law firm: oilrigslawyer.com

The stars at night...

I could see 30 days, but 180?

And ten years of probation?

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The sentence is a bit light imo. The evidence is apparently very strong, but Mason was ignorant of how late in pregnancy Misoprostol works (or perhaps he failed to induce his wife to take a full dose.) Texas law is just plain wrong, if it doesn't hold a third party (not the woman, not her doctor) fully responsible for the consequences of administering a drug without prescription.

"born about 10 weeks premature, has developmental delays and attends therapy eight times a week" is a bad outcome of an illegal act. How does he only get six months?

On the other hand, Catherine could have been complicit (ie she knew what he was doing and went along in order to induce an abortion she was denied under State law) and suspecting that, but having no proof, the court went easy on him. Any way you cut it, this would never happen if the state guaranteed the right to abortion. Injury to the fetus would be detected, by ultrasound or by fetal cell test, and Catherine would have the future option of getting pregnant to someone more responsible.

 

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I could see 30 days, but 180?

And ten years of probation?

Hopefully probation includes him having to tell future partners what he did.

Lawfare is assaulting us* en masse.

MAGA.

* We are the MAGAsphere

Lawfare is a bitch. Makes you long for the good old days when the sheriff was drunk, the judge was corrupt, and enforcing good morals fell to whoever had the quickest draw, doesn't it?