A Texas The woman was arrested and charged with murder after allegedly terminating the pregnancy.
Lizelle Herrera, 26, was arrested on Thursday following the “deliberate and willful death of a man by self-induced abortion,” police said.
It’s not clear how far along Herrera was in her pregnancy, but Texas banned all abortions after a fetal ‘heartbeat’ was first detected, which can be detected at six weeks of pregnancy.
Herrera is currently lodged in Starr County Jail on a $500,000 bond while authorities investigate, KVEO informed of.
The Starr County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
Lizelle Herrera, 26, was arrested on Thursday after “deliberately and willfully causing the death of a person self-induced abortion”.
Herrera is currently being held on $500,000 bond in Starr County Jail while authorities investigate the details of her abortion
Texas-based abortion aid fund La Frontera Fund staged a protest outside the Starr County Jail on Saturday morning, demanding Herrera’s release.
‘This arrest is inhuman. Rocky Gonzalez, Founder and Board President of Frontera Fund, said: “We are calling for the immediate release of Lizelle Herrera. KSTX‘What is alleged is that she was in the hospital and had a miscarriage and gave some information to the hospital staff, who then informed the police.’
The organization, which acknowledged that the details surrounding Herrera’s arrest are still only preliminary, also criticized the recently passed Texas Heartbeat Act.
‘This is a developing story and while we do not yet know all the details surrounding this tragic event, what we do know is that the choice of pregnant people or the criminalization of pregnancy outcomes is something that the state of Texas did. Is. When they choose not to be a parent, they have no safe choice,’ Gonzalez explained.
The activist also argued that the bill, which was passed in December 2021, is the most restrictive abortion ban in the country, banning the procedure before many women even know they are pregnant. It also deputes private citizens to prosecute those who perform abortions or those who ‘aid and perform abortions’.
“We want people to know that this type of law affects people with low income from communities of color the most when state legislators put restrictions on our reproductive rights,” Gonzalez told the radio station.
The Texas Heartbeat Act faced criticism from pro-choice groups following its enactment in September. Protesters are photographed outside the US Supreme Court last October
Despite criticisms, no legal challenge to overturn the law has been successful.
The Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, with the exception of rape or incest, took effect on September 1.
Its unusual enforcement measures were to protect it from legal challenges – anyone could bring a case against anyone who assisted a woman in getting an abortion, other than the woman herself. Such a plaintiff may be entitled to up to $10,000.
The bill faced criticism from pro-choice groups after its enactment in September.
However, no legal challenge to overturn the law has been successful, including a case brought to the US Supreme Court in December 2021 and the Texas Supreme Court last month.
Texas law conflicts with landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings that bar a state from banning abortion in pregnancy, but it was written in a way that essentially removed those precedents.
With few options, Texas abortion providers have acknowledged that the law is likely to remain on the books for the foreseeable future.
Abortion in Texas dropped by nearly 60 percent in September 2021, following the nation’s most restrictive ban on the procedure
Data published in February by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission showed a 60 percent drop in abortions across the state during the first month under the new law.
The nearly 2,200 abortions reported by Texas providers in September came after a new law went into effect that bans the procedure after cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks into the pregnancy, and rape or incest cases. . without any exception.
In August, there were more than 5,400 abortions across the state, and abortion numbers were rising steadily from 4,250 in the first seven months of 2021. Texas state health officials said more data would be released on a monthly basis.
Planned Parenthood said at the time that the numbers were the “beginning of disastrous impact” of the law as they saw a 1,082 percent increase in patients with Texas zip codes seeking abortions compared to September 2019 and 2020.
The organization said, “It is unconscionable that thousands of Texans in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and other distant states have to travel hundreds of miles from state to state to exercise their fundamental right to safe, legal abortion.” continue to be compelled.” ,
The law has also prompted several counterfeit bills in other states.
The Oklahoma House voted 70-14 to pass a bill that would make abortion in the state punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. Protesters gathered at the Capitol on Tuesday to speak out against the bill
Idaho last month became the first state to legislate after Texas statute banned abortion after about six weeks.
However, the Idaho Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the law, meaning it won’t go into effect on April 22 as planned.
The Idaho bill also allowed fathers, grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles of a ‘preborn child’ to sue the abortion provider for at least $20,000 in damages within four years after the abortion. Rapists cannot file a case under the law, but relatives of the rapist can.
In addition to Idaho, eleven other states have proposed heartbeat bills since 2018; Such bills have been passed in Ohio, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina and Texas, most of which are partly or entirely in the so-called Bible Belt, whose populations are against abortion.
Similarly, the Oklahoma House on Tuesday gave final legislative approval to a bill that would make abortion a felony, with up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
With little discussion and no debate, the Republican-controlled House voted 70-14 to send the bill to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who had previously said he would sign any anti-abortion bill coming to his desk.
If Stit enters into law and if not blocked by the courts, the bill will take effect when the state assembly is adjourned over the summer.
The bill, which passed the Senate last year, only makes exceptions for abortions performed to save the mother’s life, said GOP state representative Jim Olson of Rowland, who sponsored the bill. There is no exception for rape or incest victims.
Under the bill, a doctor or person convicted of performing an abortion would face up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $100,000.
Olsen said, ‘The punishment is for the doctor, not for the woman.
The future of the Oklahoma bill will most likely depend on a US Supreme Court ruling that was expected this summer regarding Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban that Roe v. Wade’s decision could be reversed.