Ted Deutch, the Democrat running for Congress in Florida’s 19th congressional district, just voted against a bill that declares that anyone who causes the end of a woman’s pregnancy at any stage by death or injury to the mother would be charged with the death of the unborn child. Under current state law, an offender can only be prosecuted for the death of a fetus if the fetus could live outside of the mother’s womb.

The shift in law, of course, is modeled after the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004.

Deutch’s opposition stems from concern “that doctors could potentially be prosecuted for performing an abortion.”