RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas (Washington Insider Magazine) – A district attorney in Texas stated on Sunday that he will request a judge to drop a murder case against a woman for performing a self-induced abortion.
Lizelle Herrera was detained on Thursday in Rio Grande City, a border town of roughly 14,000 individuals, after a Starr County jury found guilty her for murder on Mar 30 for allegedly causing the death of a person through self-induced abortion.
Gocha Allen Ramirez, the district attorney, said on Sunday that his office will try to drop the allegation on Monday.
Officials haven’t said much about what Herrera is accused of doing, and Ramirez hasn’t responded to an email asking further information on the case sent on Sunday. Herrera was suspected of either providing herself an abortion or helping in the self-induced abortion of somebody else, according to his remark Sunday and a prior statement released by a Starr County Sheriff ‘s Department official.
A powerful anti-abortion organisation in Texas stated it understood the ruling, claiming that state regulation only allows for civil punishments, not criminal ones.
According to ABC NEWS, Herrera was freed from the Starr County prison on Saturday after paying a $500,000 bail.
Sheriff’s Major. Carlos Delgado confirmed the indictment on Saturday, but said no further details would be published until Monday since the case is under investigation.
According to University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck, Herrera would be protected from criminal homicide charges if she aborted her own pregnancy.
The number of abortions in Texas has been drastically reduced because to a state law passed in 2021 that prohibits abortions for women as early as 6 weeks pregnant. Private citizens can sue doctors or anybody who assists a woman in getting an abortion under the legislation.
The lady who has the abortion is not subject to the law.
Another Texas rule prevents clinics and doctors from supplying abortion-inducing medicines beyond the 7th week of pregnancy, as well as allowing the pills to be sent by mail.
According to federal Food and Drug Administration regulations, pharmaceutical abortions are not deemed self- induced.
