passed into law. and so we have communities, allowing communities, communities with people of color, where resources for abortions were already limited. these laws make it even more difficult to seek safe abortions. is that something that happened here? we need even more details about what happened that night. the hospital, the district attorney has not made any public announcement so far. pablo, this is still very early on. we do even we don t even know miss herrera s involvement in this. but we do know that the hospital reported her to the authorities. can you give us a bit more insight about that particular fact that we are confirming? we still have to confirm exactly who said what. go forward to the police.
still criminalize abortion. i was a prosecutor, so that made me a member of the executive branch. when i was deciding what criminal charges i could or could not bring, i had to take into account with the supreme court had said about what is constitutional and what is not. if there is a law on the books that had, basically, been ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court, the legislature might not have repeal that law, it might still be on the books. but i had an absolute obligation as a prosecutor not to bring what was an unconstitutional charge. so, this is a real curiosity. because this doesn t seem to be directly a product of hp eight but maybe miss herrera was trying to avoid having one of these privatized marauders do something to her, because she wanted to engage in constitutionally protected activity but she decided to
coming up, i m going to ask political reporter mark caputo exactly those questions. now to a stunning case out of texas. a 26 year old woman is facing murder charges for what a grand jury indictment says was a self induced abortion. at least sell herrera was released on a half 1 million dollar bond last night, with the help of an abortion advocacy fund. it is unclear now with this case has anything to do with the new law in texas banning abortion after six weeks. here to answer our question is toxic public radio s pablo you reported the story yesterday, it is obviously big news. one of the biggest questions is, once a law issued being charged under? we look for that saturday could not find it. hi, good morning. the grand jury indictments that we brought forth by the district attorney, it has details. she was charged with murder, basically.