The Rio Grande Valley, often seen as a reliable vote against abortion, has a long history of advocacy to increase access to the procedure.
Cathy Torres, organizing manager of Frontera Fund, protests outside the Starr County Jail after Lizelle Herrera was held there on a charge of murder for allegedly having a self-induced abortion., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Ten minutes later, they were on a Zoom call. Fifteen minutes later, they had plans for a protest at the Starr County Jail the next day. They contacted partner organizations around the state and country to draw attention to the case, created social media messaging and started working with legal aid groups to figure out how to post bail.
Many details of the case remain murky. But as whole regions of the country prepare to follow Texas’ lead in significantly curtailing abortion access, local organizers say they want this weekend’s activism to send a clear message: The Frontera Fund, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, South Texans for Reproductive Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, among other groups, have created a coalition to push back against ever-tightening abortion restrictions.
“Although with this dismissal Ms. Herrera will not face prosecution for this incident, it is clear to me that the events leading up to this indictment have taken a toll on Ms. Herrera and her family. To ignore this fact would be shortsighted,” Ramirez wrote. “The issues surrounding this matter are clearly contentious, however based on Texas law and the facts presented, it is not a criminal matter.
More than 45 cities, mostly in Texas, have passed these ordinances in the last few years. Earlier this year,to a “sanctuary city for the unborn” ordinance in Lubbock, which had forced the area’s only abortion provider to stop offering the procedure. “People assume that the Valley, the border, because it’s a lot of Catholicism, they have to be pro-life,” said Torres. “There’s that presence, of course. But there’s an overwhelmingly large pro-choice community too, and that’s who showed up.”For many people, Herrera’s arrest felt like a warning of what’s to come in the next few months as the U.S. Supreme Court considers overturning the constitutional protection for abortion laid out in Roe v. Wade.
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