A 26-year-old Texas lady has been arrested and charged with homicide after authorities stated she had a “self-induced abortion.”
Lizelle Herrera was arrested Thursday when officers stated she “deliberately and knowingly trigger[d] the demise of a person by self-induced abortion,” based on a spokesperson for the Starr County Sheriff’s Workplace.
No particulars in regards to the “abortion” or fetus have been supplied.
Herrera was nonetheless in custody Friday. Her bail was set at $500,000, according to Valley Central, which was the primary to report the arrest.
La Frontera Fund, an abortion help fund based mostly within the Rio Grande Valley, was planning a protest for Saturday morning exterior the Starr County Jail in Rio Grande Metropolis, Texas Public Radio reported.
“This arrest is inhumane. We’re demanding the speedy launch of Lizelle Herrera,” Rockie Gonzalez, founder and board chair of Frontera, informed the information outlet.
The group was nonetheless in search of extra particulars in regards to the “tragic occasion,” stated Gonzalez.
“What we do know is that criminalizing pregnant folks’s decisions or being pregnant outcomes, which the state of Texas has achieved, takes away folks’s autonomy over their very own our bodies, and leaves them with no secure choices after they select to not turn into a guardian,” Gonzalez defined.
The arrest represented an additional chilling crackdown on girls in Texas and a disturbing problem to the inviolability of a person’s personal physique.
It follows final 12 months’s passage of the harshest reproductive rights regulation within the nation, which permits abortions for only some weeks after being pregnant, earlier than the detection of an embryo’s so-called “heartbeat” — really a cluster of cells that emit electrical indicators. That’s earlier than most individuals usually even know they’re pregnant.
The regulation, which has impressed a number of copycat payments in different states, offers no exceptions for pregnancies attributable to rape or incest. It permits personal residents to sue anybody who performs an abortion or “aids and abets” a process. That includes the families or friends of rapists who impregnate a lady in opposition to her will.
The regulation has compelled 1000’s of ladies to journey out of Texas to acquire abortions — if they’ll afford to take action.
A research final month on the College of Texas at Austin’s Coverage Analysis Mission discovered that from final September to December, nearly 1,400 Texans each month have been touring to neighboring states for abortions.
One other research within the Journal of the American Medical Affiliation by a College of Texas researcher discovered a surge in the number of Texans requesting abortion pills from the abroad nonprofit Assist Entry.
