'We should not be living in a country where people who get pregnant are afraid to go for help at a hospital, because somebody there will turn them in or might turn them in, and it will result in arrest.' NAPW
"No case in Texas has ever permitted the use of the state's murder law to address abortion or pregnancy loss," said one advocacy group.The district attorney of Starr County, Texas on Sunday said he would drop a murder charge against, a woman who was arrested on Thursday for allegedly causing"the death of an individual by self-induced abortion."
against Herrera's arrest on social media and joined South Texans for Reproductive Justice in leading a rally outside the jail.It was unclear which state law Herrera was accused of breaking, and whether she was accused of helping another person self-manage an abortion or of ending her own pregnancy. Since Herrera had criminal charges filed against her instead of a lawsuit, it's unlikely that S.B. 8 applied in this case.
Regardless of what reasoning a grand jury used when it indicted Herrera on March 30, after a hospital reported the alleged self-induced abortion to the police,journalist Melissa Gira Grant,"the real issue is all laws penalizing and criminalizing abortion contribute to stigma and people being arrested for pregnancy outcomes—even when the law doesn’t allow for it."
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