*Please no-one get pissed at me for asking this question, i am not advocating the pro-life stance.*
-- I just don't understand how we hold multiple persons who are parties to a crime equally responsible [ or close to it] in nearly any other felony, and the state can choose to prosecute all involved -but the laws are not written like that on this issue. What is the reasoning from the lawmakers / law writers ?
Alabama's execrable anti-abortion statute includes a provision that shields women from criminal and civil liability if they choose to exercise their fundamental right to choose to terminate their pregnancy.
There should be a record of the colloquy among the Alabama legislators who argued for inclusion of this provision.
This record may reveal their rationale for including it.
If anyone finds it please post it.
Opinions vary as to why women should not be subject to prosecution for having an abortion.
Some say it's more effective to demonize the physicians who perform abortions.
Others say that anti-abortion legislators and prosecutors know that the public views prosecution as unduly cruel and that prosecutions would likely result in jury-nullification acquittals.
My surmise is that the anti-abortion camp's anti-prosecution stance, whether sincere or feigned, is an attempt to make anti-abortion measures less unpalatable.