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Teen Gets Life Sentence For Helping Girlfriend End Pregnancy 19-Year-Old Stepped On Stomach While Girl Punched Self POSTED: 7:44 am EDT June 7, 2005 LUFKIN, Texas -- A 19-year-old accused of causing his teenage girlfriend to miscarry two fetuses by stepping on her stomach was convicted Monday of two counts of murder. Gerardo Flores received an automatic life sentence because prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, which was available under the state's 2003 fetus protection law. Erica Basoria, 17, acknowledged asking Flores to help end her pregnancy; she could not be prosecuted because of her legal right to abortion. The defense contended that Basoria punched herself while Flores was stepping on her, making it impossible to tell who caused the miscarriage. Basoria told authorities that, after about four months of pregnancy, she regretted not getting an abortion and started jogging and hitting herself to induce a miscarriage. When her efforts failed, she said she asked her boyfriend to help. Flores did not testify, but earlier told police that he stepped on Basoria's stomach several times during the week before she miscarried. Prosecutor Art Bauereiss said most of Basoria's family was pleased with the jury's decision. But Basoria, who sobbed as she left the Angelina County Courthouse, had stood by Flores. "It's just tragedy all around," said Flores' attorney, Ryan Deaton. Texas law defines an embryo or fetus as an "individual" and allows criminal prosecution or civil action for a preventable injury or death of a fetus. The law exempts health care providers who perform a legal medical procedure, such as an abortion.
"So, aside from how backwards it is that a child has a legal right to live unless the mother decides otherwise, how is it possible that this kid got convicted of murder for doing for free what "health care providers" do for money? I could see charging him with practicing "medicine" without a license, but life imprisonment for what "doctors" are doing every day? Does anyone get how messed up this is? -stupendousman"
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"So, aside from how backwards it is that a child has a legal right to live unless the mother decides otherwise, how is it possible that this kid got convicted of murder for doing for free what "health care providers" do for money? I could see charging him with practicing "medicine" without a license, but life imprisonment for what "doctors" are doing every day? Does anyone get how messed up this is? -stupendousman"
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