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Apr 9 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Lizelle Herrera, a 26-year-old Latin American woman in Texas, has been charged with murder and is being held on a HALF MILLION DOLLAR bail… for having an abortion

thedailybeast.com/texas-woman-li…
@SomilBTrivedi @_SemaHernandez_ have you guys seen this?
@TheFireNexTime did you see this!?
@DelilahforTexas you see this!?
@KellyScaletta have you seen this!?
@ErikaAndiola i know youre in AZ, but have you seen this!?
@KitOConnell have you seen this!?
@ExtremeArturo have you seen this!?
@CasforTX please drop your tweet on this below mine!
Not only is Lizelle Herrera in jail because she was criminalized as a poor woman of color — and can’t pay $500K bail! — the entire country knows the details of her private life.

This is what happens in a society completely confused about right and wrong, and crime and punishment
The latest is that we did #FreeLizelleHerrera… for now.

Unless she’s exonerated pre trial, she’ll have to go to court to face *murder* charges (for an abortion).

For more, please follow Nancy + @_SemaHernandez_ and @DelilahforTexas: three Texas women of color
There is now an official legal fund for #LizelleHerrera! It’s time to #FreeLizelleHerrera from these charges!
Lizelle Herrera isn’t the only one…

On the inequity and inhumanity of jailing and cash bail in the United States:
BREAKING: The DA who charged #LizelleHerrera with murder for losing her baby has dropped the charges.
"Low income people of color cannot walk into a hospital and know that they will be able to be honest with their medical providers and give them information that might save their life because they might go to jail for it” - Rockie Gonzalez, @LaFronteraFund

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