A Texas district attorney said Sunday that he will ask a judge to dismiss a murder charge against a woman over a “self-induced abortion.”
in Rio Grande City, a community of about 14,000 people along the Mexico border, after a Starr County grand jury indicted her on March 30 for murder for allegedly causing “the death of an individual ... by self-induced abortion.”
A leading Texas antiabortion group said it understood the decision, saying that state law provides only civil remedies, not criminal ones. Texas law would exempt Herrera from a criminal homicide charge for aborting her own pregnancy, University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck said.
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