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Well, if abortion were illegal, things like drinking, smoking, and jumping on a trampoline while pregnant would probably count as child endangerment or even child abuse.

And I do not see how pro-lifers don't understand that this necessarily follows rules that place a fetus's worth above the woman who carries it. Even worse, I don't know how they can't see that this sort of extreme restriction of women for the sake of a fetus (that no man is subject to, and that no woman is subject to for her born children) isn't exceptionally misogynistic.

My uncle is a lawyer. He once defended a man who, in a drug-induced craze, killed someone. He was going to have 20 years, but my uncle managed to only give him 10.

A woman, in a possibly suicidal mindset, ODs on a drug, kills a fetus, and could get 26 years.

Even if the guy my uncle defended didn't get off, he'd have six years less than this woman.

War on Drugs bias? Likely. Misogynistic bias in the so-called judicial system? Even more likely.

She shouldn't have been doing those drugs in the first place, and if she didn't want the fetus she could have had an abortion. But 26 years... no.... 2-3 years maybe for using drugs without prescriptions but not the "Child Endangerment". Secondly, we don't have all of the story here. We don't know if she was just misusing drugs, accidently overdosed on the meds she was already taking currently, or was trying to get rid of the fetus. We need the whole story to make sense of the situation but the media probably won't give it to us.

Yes the judical system is screwed up. You can get more in prison for being at the scene of a crime such as murder or theft (or even just knowing the people who commited the act) than if you were the actual thief or murderer. You will get more time in prison for making a copy of a movie than someone who has raped, killed and beat 5 year old.