---
title: "People Are Starting to Risk DIY Abortions"
description: "A Texas woman was placed under arrest Thursday for either having or helping someone have an abortion. Police set a $500,000 bond and few other details."
date: "2022-04-09"
modified: "2022-04-09"
authors:
  - name: "Lonnie Lee Hood"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ahood"
url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/diy-abortion-arrest"
categories:
  - "Health & Medicine"
tags:
  - "abortion"
  - "healthcare"
  - "Human Rights"
  - "wellness"
---

# People Are Starting to Risk DIY Abortions

![A Texas woman was placed under arrest Thursday for either having or helping someone have an abortion. Police set a $500,000 bond and few other details.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/diy-abortion-arrest.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Getty / Futurism \</em\>*

Authorities won't say whether a Texas woman was arrested for performing an abortion on herself or helping another resident get one, but they set a $500,000 bond on her all the same.

The 26-year old was arrested on Thursday, [according to the *Guardian*](<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/09/texas-woman-26-charged-murder-self-induced-abortion>), and remains in jail today. Texas has some of the [strictest abortion laws in the country](<https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083536401/texas-abortion-law-6-months>) that all but erase the constitutional right to choose, and recent legislation actually rewards private, non-law-enforcement civilians as much as $10,000 for turning someone in for an alleged abortion and sue the doctor or other provider who assisted with the abortion.

"\[She\] was arrested and served with an indictment on the charge of murder after Herrera did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual by self-induced abortion," Rio Grande City Sheriff’s Major Carlos Delgado told the *Guardian*.

Delgado would not say which law the young woman is being charged for and that more details will come.

Activists have been [warning this would happen for years](<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-women-abortion/kenyan-activists-death-in-botched-abortion-spotlights-killer-backstreet-clinics-idUSKCN1Q42H0>) as anti-choice activists win court battles. Many worried it was a [matter of time before someone was charged with murder](<https://www.aclu.org/news/reproductive-freedom/texas-bounty-hunter-abortion-ban-is-a-dire-warning-of-what-lays-ahead-for-our-reproductive-rights>) or jailed for exercising a Constitutional right. The fear makes sense given that oppressive legislation that ban LGBTQ+ access to healthcare [have already created mental health crises for many](<https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2022/03/17/anti-trans-legislation-in-tennessee-sparks-a-mental-health-crisis/7078412001/>).

Unsafe abortion is a leading cause of maternal deaths that could be easily prevented, according to the [World Health Organization](<https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abortion>). If a person survives an unsafe abortion it can still cause physical and mental illness, social and financial struggles and more.

With less access to reproductive healthcare, [pregnant people are driving hours](<https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-10-13/we-have-to-be-heard-texas-women-travel-to-seek-abortions>) to see the same doctors or going without care at all. There's no world in [which making abortion a felony](<https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2022/04/06/oklahoma-abortion-ban-kevin-stitt-what-we-know/9485210002/>), as Oklahoma wants to do, will lead to better health outcomes for anyone.

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