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Author: BobR    Date: 04/13/2022 13:07:02

The war continues to rage in Ukraine; there was a horrific attack on the NYC subway yesterday. These stories are getting tons of coverage, threatening to obscure other stories that have a greater impact on our lives.

One of those stories comes out of Texas (emphasis on ASS), where a woman was actually arrested for a self-induced abortion. This seemed like the smoldering tip of a match destined to set woman's health care rights aflame and lead to a SCOTUS case that could re-litigate Roe -vs- Wade.

Apparently, the charges were applied a bit too hastily, and the DA for the case wants the charges dropped:
Calixtro Villarreal’s phone rang Saturday afternoon, about 48 hours after his client, Lizelle Herrera, was arrested and charged with murder — over what local authorities alleged was a “self-induced abortion.”

It was Gocha Ramirez, the district attorney in Starr County, Tex., a remote area on the border with Mexico. Herrera should never have been charged, Ramirez told the lawyer, according to a person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private interactions.

The district attorney reiterated that sentiment in a text he sent the next day to an acquaintance. “I’m so sorry,” he wrote in the message, which was reviewed by The Washington Post. “I assure you I never meant to hurt this young lady.”

Ramirez moved to drop all the charges Sunday. He did not respond to requests for comment, nor did Herrera. Villarreal declined to comment multiple times.

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However, interviews with several people in the South Texas community closely following the situation, as well as statements from leaders in the Texas antiabortion movement, suggest this was not part of a broader antiabortion strategy, but instead a hasty error by a first-term Democratic district attorney.
(bold-face mine)

You have to wonder if there's a glitch in the matrix where a democrat is the anti-abortion crusader and the republican is more concerned with the woman's rights.

More disturbing (from the same article):

A hospital brought the case to the attention of the sheriff’s office, according to Ramirez’s statement. Rene “Orta” Fuentes, 61, who became sheriff in 2008 after spending nearly three decades in the department, did not respond to a request for comment.

So a hospital divulged a patient's private health care details? Isn't this a violation of HIPAA laws? Where are we as a society when we can't trust our healthcare providers to keep our medical treatments private? Who is the hospital to make that kind of judgement?

"First - do no harm" - yep, they definitely violated that one.
 

4 comments (Latest Comment: 04/13/2022 19:26:54 by Raine)
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Comment by Raine on 04/13/2022 13:21:23
Good Morning!

Comment by wickedpam on 04/13/2022 14:02:02
Morning

Jeez! That's a terrifying snap shot of things to come for women if Repubs fully get there way

Comment by Will_in_LA on 04/13/2022 15:07:53
Good morning, bloggers!!!

Ultimately, the GOP wishes to have certain segments of society under tight control. I think that the GOP may find that they have hit a hornet's nest if Roe v. Wade is overturned or so weakened as to be almost meaningless.

Comment by Raine on 04/13/2022 19:26:54
NYC got the guy.