News of the Weird, a.k.a. "It's Only Murder When We Don't Get Paid"

Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird
WEEK OF JUNE 26, 2005

Gerardo Flores, 19, was convicted of murder in June in Lufkin, Texas, in the death of the 5-month-old fetus of his girlfriend, Erica Basoria. Flores admitted that he had stood on Basoria's stomach several times at her request to induce a miscarriage, but Basoria had told authorities that she had also punched herself in the stomach several times. Under Texas law, killing a fetus is a capital offense, and so Flores automatically received a life sentence, but Basoria could not be charged because of her constitutional right to abortion. [Washington Post-AP, 6-6-05]

My sister sent this to me today. I'd seen it elsewhere already on Lucianne and such, but it's still just staggeringly, galactically ridiculous.

Here's my question: Why are abortion doctors allowed to do this with taxpayer money--in other words, doing it with government endorsement--while poor confused Gerardo Flores gets the book thrown at him for doing the same thing? Could it be because liberals don't want people to be able to do it without giving the government money?