Murder charges dropped against Texas woman for ‘self-induced abortion’

Lizelle Herrera has been released after being thrown in jail last week, while district attorney says this is not a criminal matter'

The woman who was thrown in jail on a murder charge in Texas for allegedly having caused the death of an individual by self-induced abortion" has been released after the local district attorney dropped the case.

Lizelle Herrera, 26, was reported to be back with her family on Sunday after the district attorney in Rio Grande City, on the US-Mexico border, put out a statement saying he was immediately dismissing the case. Herrera had been arrested last Thursday and placed in the Starr county jail on the back of a grand jury indictment.