Police in Texas have arrested a girl for allegedly self-inducing an abortion in a case that has highlighted what some contemplate to be draconian new laws concerning the process within the Lone Star State.
Lizelle Herrera, 26, was arrested on Thursday in Starr County, close to the Mexican border and charged with homicide for allegedly performing what police referred to as a "self-induced abortion," Texas Public Radio (TPR) reported.
In September 2021, Texas lawmakers handed essentially the most restrictive abortion legal guidelines within the nation. Senate Invoice 8 (SB8) bans abortions from as early as six weeks right into a being pregnant, when many do not even notice they're pregnant.
The regulation deputizes personal residents to sue anybody who performs an abortion or "aids and abets" a process.
The Starr County Sheriff's Workplace mentioned Herrera was served with an indictment "on the cost of homicide after Herrera did then and there deliberately and knowingly trigger the dying of a person by self-induced abortion," MYRGV reported.
Newsweek has contacted the Starr County Sheriff's Workplace for remark.
Rockie Gonzalez, founding father of La Frontera Fund, a Rio Grande Valley-based abortion help fund, mentioned it will arrange a protest on Saturday morning exterior the Starr County Jail the place Herrara is being held on a bond set at $500,000.
Gonzalez instructed TPR that her group was demanding Herrera's "fast launch," and described her arrest as "inhumane."
In a tweet, her group urged individuals to point out up exterior the jail in assist of Herrera "who's being wrongfully charged with homicide."
Gonzalez mentioned that whereas her group didn't know all the main points, Herrera had been allegedly within the hospital, had a miscarriage after which "divulged some info to hospital workers, who then reported her to the police."
"Criminalizing pregnant individuals's decisions or being pregnant outcomes, which the state of Texas has completed, takes away individuals's autonomy over their very own our bodies, and leaves them with no protected choices after they select to not turn out to be a mother or father," she mentioned.
She added that the Texas laws had essentially the most influence on "low-income individuals of colour communities."
On the heels of the Texas regulation was a vote by Oklahoma's Home of Representatives to ban all abortions except the process is required to avoid wasting the mom's life.
The state's home by which Republicans maintain a supermajority, voted to ship the invoice to the workplace of Governor Kevin Stitt for his approval. If signed would imply a close to complete ban on abortion.
The U.S. Supreme Court docket is because of rule by the tip of June on a case involving a Republican-backed Mississippi regulation which might see the reversal of the 1973 Roe v Wade choice that legalized abortion underneath federal regulation.
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