This makes me cry

[snowybirdie]

in frustration. Half a million dollars for bail is for heinous crimes, not a woman's right!
From Salon.com

A26-year-old woman named Lizelle Herrera was arrested on Thursday and faces a murder charge in relation to her own self-induced abortion.

Herrera is currently being held on a $500 thousand bond in the custody of the Starr County Sheriff's Office, according to local station KVEO-TV.

A spokesperson for the sheriff's office gave a statement to news outlets saying that Herrera's arrest came about when their office learned she had "intentionally and knowingly cause(d) the death of an individual by self-induced abortion."

Related: The bizarre politics of radical anti-abortion activists

"This arrest is inhumane. We are demanding the immediate release of Lizelle Herrera.' said Rockie Gonzalez, founder and board chair of Frontera Fund in a quote used by Texas Public Radio. "What is alleged is that she was in the hospital and had a miscarriage and divulged some information to hospital staff, who then reported her to the police."

[Bettie]

1. So, hospital staff chose to

share her medical information with police.

Noted. Apparently, medical ethics are not a thing in Texas.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Not when there's a $10k bounty up for grabs...

[blueinredohio]

12. What about HIPPA laws?

The hospital should be reported for giving out her information.

[Bettie]

13. Apparently, that doesn't matter anymore

if you are a woman.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. There's another thread on this where we were wondering about...

some of rhe details.

The hospital people who ratted her out should be the ones facing jail time.

[samnsara]

7. there are other less dangerous abortion methods...

..as a maternal child health care social worker i worked with many migrants and learned of a lot of folk medicine remedies..including termination of a pregnancy.

[MagickMuffin]

4. I was wondering who would narc on her, extremely sad the hospital did. Do they receive the bounty?

I'm almost certain that would be the driving force to rat out a patient!


That's why I don't tell medical professionals my whole history. It's none of their business.

[secondwind]

5. Now they are calling a zygote

"AN INDIVIDUAL". Can they be any more HORRIBLE?

[North Shore Chicago]

6. Texas

The folks who voted for these cruel politicians passing these medieval laws really need to wake the fuck up! These laws will affect some woman/girl in their family.

This poor woman needs help, maybe someone offering her a hand to get out of this state for starters.

[uponit7771]

8. Texas is a text book dictatorship, it'll get worse for women and other minorities in that state soon

[niyad]

9. I would like to see the bail requirements for men who murder their female

partners in Tex-ass (with apologies to all good Texans).

[CrispyQ]

10. This.

My outrage meter is off the chart today.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Florida always tries to follow Texas' lead.

[Hoyt]

14. Hope she gets a good attorney that gets her out of this, and makes it a constitutional issue.

[Dustlawyer]

16. I bet the ACLU and other organizations will fight for her and put this issue up front in the

National media. It will put this terrible law front and center in the debate.

[peggysue2]

15. Another example of what the Republican Party wants

Putin-like reprisals, people calling others out for political reasons.

Women are the enemy in this narrative, people who need to be controlled and/or punished.

[wnylib]

17. Maybe a go fund me is in order to put up her bail

and get her released.

I am sure she would get the donations necessary. They would come in from across the country.

[Solly Mack]

18. I won't type out what I want to happen to the hospital staff who betrayed her.

[niyad]

21. May they receive EVERYTHING they deserve. So mote it be.

[Laha]

19. This is terrifying

Margaret Atwood warned us all. It's a tragedy that her books are probably already on the piles that have been burnt in these backwards states.

[Joinfortmill]

20. Enough of this goddamn barbarism against women. And these hospital personnel need to be fired

Praying a decent lawyer steps forward to help her.

[58Sunliner]

22. This makes me physically ill.

That fucking hospital quite possibly has no way of knowing what the patient actually did or did not do. Many times patients assume things that are irrelevant or just wrong.

Link to tweet

[snowybirdie]

23. Thank you

Will be following this story on Twitter. Glad that poor woman is getting help.