Good. He belongs jail. 180 days is not long enough.
Within the legal framework and social precedents that have been set surrounding abortions and abortion medication, not sure how they could justify increasing that sentence.
Given that an argument has been made that
it's not a person if it's not outside the womb, I don't see a progressive argument for increasing the sentence beyond what a person would get for drugging someone else without intent to harm.
If the law office website out of Texas I'm reading is accurate, if a person drugs another person
with intent to harm (or commit sexual assault against) another person, it caries a sentence of 5 years and up to a $10,000 fine.
In this case, the "target of harm" was a fetus, and since an argument has been made that "a fetus is not a person", there wouldn't really be a morally consistent argument in which a progressive could demand a stiffer sentence.
Not saying you're progressive here...just pointing out the reason why you likely won't hear any progressives suggesting that he should've been tried for attempted murder vs. the charges he got.
While I'm by no means what people would call a "pro-lifer", (I have a somewhat nuanced view on the topic)... situations like this highlight the reality that, in the quest for certain rights, people have artificially downplayed the gravity of certain things (to make their case for the policy they want) to the point where moral clarity is lacking in certain situations, and thereby, painted themselves in a corner.
Obviously for anyone looking at a situation objectively, if a man punched his six months pregnant wife in the stomach and she lost the pregnancy as a result, we all know that's an even more grizzly scenario than if she were not pregnant (though both are still terrible), but one can't really make an argument that the former is that much worse if they've just gotten done spending the last two years insisting that it's "just a fetus/clump of cells".
