Texas Woman Sues DA Over Abortion Murder Charge

ABC News reports:

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.

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.”

The lawsuit argues Gonzalez suffered harm from the arrest and subsequent media coverage. She is seeking $1 million in damages. Starr County District Attorney Gocha Ramirez said Friday that he had not yet been served the lawsuit and declined comment.

Read the full article. As I reported early this morning, Ramirez’s law license has been suspended until March 2025, but he somehow remains in office.

A South Texas woman sued the Starr County District Attorney’s office and the county after she was wrongfully charged with murder over a self-induced abortion in 2022. https://t.co/vvspBd6fIH

— ABC News (@ABC) March 30, 2024