Texas woman was charged with murder for having an abortion. Now, she's suing the state

[Speedy]

This should be an interesting case due to the abortion at 19 weeks.

https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-abor...ed-lawsuit

A Texas woman is suing her local prosecutors after they charged her with murder for self-managing an abortion.

Lizelle Gonzalez was 19 weeks pregnant in 2022 when she used misoprostol, one of two drugs used in medication abortions, which is also used to treat stomach ulcers, the Associated Press. She was discharged from the hospital one day with abominable pain, then returned the next day with bleeding. An exam found no fetal heartbeat, and doctors performed a caesarian section to deliver a stillborn baby.

Gonzalez was arrested after the hospital reported the abortion to the district attorney’s office. She spent two nights in jail after being charged with murder in “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion." The charges were dropped and Gonzalez was released days later, but only after she had been publicly named as a murder suspect.

It is illegal for health care providers to perform or facilitate an abortion in Texas, but patients who receive the treatment are exempt from criminal charges. The State Bar of Texas later punished Starr County District Attorney Gocha Ramirez for bringing the charges at all, forcing him to pay a $1,250 fine and suspending his license for 12 months.

[gabester]

They're so singlemindedly obsessed with protecting the rights of these "unborn" that they forget about the rights living breathing humans. I hope this woman gets everything she asks for in a settlement and that these laws are soon taken off the books they should have never been put in.

[wurm]

I guess they'd prefer she fell down a stairway and lost the baby that way.

[$tevie]

gabester wrote:
They're so singlemindedly obsessed with protecting the rights of these "unborn" that they forget about the rights living breathing humans. I hope this woman gets everything she asks for in a settlement and that these laws are soon taken off the books they should have never been put in.

They aren't "forgetting" the rights of the living breathing humans. They do not care about the rights of the living breathing humans. Women are walking, talking incubators, not people.

[RAMd®d]

All of this legislation being passed is all the indication anyone should need to realize it's all structured attacks on women and women's rights.

There is no forgetting here.

[sekker]

RAMd®d wrote:
All of this legislation being passed is all the indication anyone should need to realize it's all structured attacks on women and women's rights.

There is no forgetting here.

Yes. It's no longer a hidden agenda.