By Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas (This will also be a part of the new website #notavictim. Special shout out to Bradley Pierce for clarifying the distinctions in the code). Under current Texas law, an individual person is defined as "a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth;" and homicide is defined as intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or criminally negligently causing the death of an individual person. Tex. Penal Code § 1.07(26) and (38) and Ch. 19. Because of this, Texas already has established "personhood" for preborn children, and their lives are generally protected by law. For example, if a drunk driver hits and kills a pregnant woman and her baby, the perpetrator can be charged with double homicide. In fact, these statutes legally define elective abortion as homicide and, standing alone, would completely outlaw abortion in Texas. To avoid that, when the definition for individual person w
No Exceptions, No Compromise.