Life Sentence for Helping Girl Miscarry

(Lufkin, Texas) Teenaged Geraldo Flores was automatically sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in the Angelina County Courthouse of helping his girlfriend terminate two fetuses by stepping on her stomach. Flores, 19, was convicted under the Texas fetus protection law. His girlfriend, Erica Basoria, 17, could not be prosecuted because of her legal right to abortion.

Would it be too presumptuous to suggest that this case resulted from a general disregard for the lives of the unborn brought on by a culture that views abortion as just another birth control method?