The audience for the debate at San Antonio College cheered and heckled the candidates throughout the hour-long event, but the candidates’ answers on abortion drew the loudest and most impassioned outbursts.
Incumbent Democrat Joe Gonzales, right, speaks during a Bexar County district attorney debate against Republican challenger Marc LaHood on Wednesday.Questions on abortion sparked passionate responses from Bexar County’s district attorney candidates, as well as the audience, at the San Antonio Report’s town hall-style debate Wednesday.
Last month, Texas’ law went into effect that makes performing an abortion a criminal felony punishable by up to life in prison, with only narrow exceptions to save the life of a pregnant patient. It also prohibits prosecuting the woman who gets the abortion. “My job is not to prosecute but to seek justice,” Gonzales said. “I don’t see the justice in prosecuting women for personal choice decisions like abortion.”
Like Gonzales, LaHood also said he could not give a blanket answer. He said he would evaluate abortion cases like any other. “Every case is based on the charges, the evidence and the history,” he said.incumbent Nico LaHood in the Democratic Party primary. Gonzales’ challenger is Nico LaHood’s brother, who is running as a Republican.
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