Comment by runako

4 months ago

Sigh. I really do not want to get into the politicized language around abortion. Especially in this specific case, where we do not know many relevant facts. Let's just use the language in the police report:

> the abortion/miscarriage

Presumably that is neutral enough?

Back to my original point, which is that crime is not out of control. You say that

> Police believed they had identified a crime and investigated it

which is at odds with what the police say:

> No charges were ever filed against the woman and she was never under criminal investigation by Johnson County.

I am guessing the police have more information about this than you do.

The police creeped on a woman, invaded her extremely personal business, wrote reports about it with knowledge those reports could become public, without any of it being in service of crime reduction.

Edit: I'm not fully up-to-date on the law, but my understanding is that there is no justiciable crime in Texas around a woman herself terminating a pregnancy using medical means. Police could have witnessed her consuming the medication and there still would be nothing to charge as no crime would have occurred.