> A Texas woman who was charged with murder over self-managing an abortion and spent two nights in jail has sued prosecutors along the U.S.-Mexico border who put the criminal case in motion before it was later dropped.
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> The lawsuit filed by Lizelle Gonzalez in federal court Thursday comes a month after the State Bar of Texas fined and disciplined the district attorney in rural Starr County over the case in 2022, when Gonzalez was charged with murder in “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.”
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> According to the lawsuit, Gonzalez was 19 weeks pregnant when she used misoprostol, one of two drugs used in medication abortions. Misoprostol is also used to treat stomach ulcers.
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> After taking the pills, Gonzalez received an obstetrical examination at the hospital emergency room and was discharged with abdominal pain. She returned with bleeding the next day and an exam found no fetal heartbeat. Doctors performed a caesarian section to deliver a stillborn baby.
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> The lawsuit argues that the hospital violated the patient’s privacy rights when they reported the abortion to the district attorney’s office, which then carried out its own investigation and produced a murder charge against Gonzalez.
I hope she wins big.
“The lawsuit filed by Lizelle Gonzalez in federal court Thursday comes a month after the State Bar of Texas fined and disciplined the district attorney in rural Starr County over the case in 2022, when Gonzalez was charged with murder in “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.” “
She’s going to challenge prosecutorial immunity in the fifth circuit. That’s going to be really, really difficult.
If she was 19 weeks, it seems odd to say that c-section was delivering a stillborn baby, right?
What happens when a woman doesn’t eat right or get enough sleep, and has a miscarriage? Charges of murder?
This will get nullified almost immediately on the basis of prosecutorial immunity, unfortunately.
“Self managed an abortion.” The correct term is the prosecution’s term. Murder.
I’m concerned about women using abortion pills so far into pregnancy, both for health risks to the woman, and for the fetus being so close to viability; another tragic outcome of lack of access to safe abortion/healthcare after Dobbs.
I hope she wins
A goal is to get felony convictions to suppress the vote.
Nazi State. Texas rise up. Look what you voted in.
Texas is horrible. You have to be an idiot to want to live in it.
She might wanna check to see if those sneaks tied her tubes during the c section, too.
Man, texas, your lone star is looking like a yelp review
Only 1 million? Nah….more. Make it hurt.
I feel like if I won the lottery, I’d fund an organization designed to support these kind of lawsuits along with providing security for Boeing whistleblowers…
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> A Texas woman who was charged with murder over self-managing an abortion and spent two nights in jail has sued prosecutors along the U.S.-Mexico border who put the criminal case in motion before it was later dropped.
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> The lawsuit filed by Lizelle Gonzalez in federal court Thursday comes a month after the State Bar of Texas fined and disciplined the district attorney in rural Starr County over the case in 2022, when Gonzalez was charged with murder in “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.”
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> According to the lawsuit, Gonzalez was 19 weeks pregnant when she used misoprostol, one of two drugs used in medication abortions. Misoprostol is also used to treat stomach ulcers.
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> After taking the pills, Gonzalez received an obstetrical examination at the hospital emergency room and was discharged with abdominal pain. She returned with bleeding the next day and an exam found no fetal heartbeat. Doctors performed a caesarian section to deliver a stillborn baby.
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> The lawsuit argues that the hospital violated the patient’s privacy rights when they reported the abortion to the district attorney’s office, which then carried out its own investigation and produced a murder charge against Gonzalez.
I hope she wins big.
“The lawsuit filed by Lizelle Gonzalez in federal court Thursday comes a month after the State Bar of Texas fined and disciplined the district attorney in rural Starr County over the case in 2022, when Gonzalez was charged with murder in “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.” “
She’s going to challenge prosecutorial immunity in the fifth circuit. That’s going to be really, really difficult.
If she was 19 weeks, it seems odd to say that c-section was delivering a stillborn baby, right?
What happens when a woman doesn’t eat right or get enough sleep, and has a miscarriage? Charges of murder?
This will get nullified almost immediately on the basis of prosecutorial immunity, unfortunately.
“Self managed an abortion.” The correct term is the prosecution’s term. Murder.
I’m concerned about women using abortion pills so far into pregnancy, both for health risks to the woman, and for the fetus being so close to viability; another tragic outcome of lack of access to safe abortion/healthcare after Dobbs.
I hope she wins
A goal is to get felony convictions to suppress the vote.
Nazi State. Texas rise up. Look what you voted in.
Texas is horrible. You have to be an idiot to want to live in it.
She might wanna check to see if those sneaks tied her tubes during the c section, too.
Man, texas, your lone star is looking like a yelp review
Only 1 million? Nah….more. Make it hurt.
I feel like if I won the lottery, I’d fund an organization designed to support these kind of lawsuits along with providing security for Boeing whistleblowers…