None of the parts are necessary. For half the country wanting to imprison people over a law that has been on the books for decades(?), it seems to have had an impressively low prosecution rate.
Most of my facebook feed seems to be pretty pissed off about that low prosecution rate. If you would rather these people not be prosecuted, then why get upset about a law that says they won't be prosecuted?
That is not the actual premise of the new law. Just as reducing child molestation was not the actual premise of the bathroom bills.
If you are equating “non-viable” fetuses with terminally ill people, does that mean you would support killing a 38 week baby in utero if a doctor determines it wouldn’t survive longer than 5 years after birth? And if so what is the distinction between that and a baby born early at 35 weeks given the same diagnosis after birth?
And does the NY law now allow that? I’m not sure, but I am sure that the claimed justification regarding babies with a zero chance of survival is simply not true because it is impossible for prosecutors to bring that case under the old or new laws.
