Justice Antonin Scalia once said that legislatures do not “alter the fundamental details” of the law “in vague terms or ancillary provisions”—that is, they don’t “hide elephants in mouseholes.”

Critics of Georgia’s new abortion law, like Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern—who is worried that the state just made women who have abortions eligible for the death penalty—should take heed. Mr. Stern relies on the interpretation given to HB 481 by a smart acquaintance of mine, Andrew Fleischman. Because I both support the new law and oppose criminal penalties for women who have abortions, Mr. Fleischman’s take gave me concern. But when I looked at the text of HB 481, and Georgia law more generally, my fears dissolved. HB 481 does not put women who have abortions in prosecutors’ crosshairs. (David French reached the same conclusion, for many of the same reasons, in the National Review on May 11.)