# The Republican Party is the Party of Evil **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 4, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187 "2021-03-04T17:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 53
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1042 "2022-04-09T15:28:34Z")
Texas woman charged with murder for ‘self-induced abortion’ > **[DA moves to dismiss a murder charge against a Texas woman accused of a...](https://www.tpr.org/news/2022-04-08/texas-woman-charged-with-murder-for-self-induced-abortion)** > > Lizelle Herrera, 26, was released from custody Saturday night on $500,000 bond. Then, on Sunday, the DA said the Starr County Sheriff's Department "did their duty in investigating the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital."... ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1043 "2022-04-10T05:23:57Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Texas woman charged with murder for ‘self-induced abortion’ We really need to have a separate special thread just for Texas political atrocities. (I posted this same story, and this same comment, in another thread – I think it was SRIOTD2.) Maybe we should also have a special thread for Florida political atrocities. ETA: Yeah, here it is: > [@NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1361): > > Do we have a specific Pit thread for the political atrocities happening in Texas, or does that just go in this thread? Texas woman arrested for performing a “self-induced abortion”, charged with murder, jailed on $500,000 bail. (This article is a bit outdated already, I saw a later one somewhere that she is now out on $500,000 bail after two nights in jail.) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1044 "2022-04-10T05:43:48Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > We really need to have a separate special thread just for Texas political atrocities. You’d have to have a thread for Florida and another for Missouri, too. Maybe Idaho. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1045 "2022-04-10T05:52:33Z")
Oh, most definitely Idaho needs to be included. I say this as a 72 year old Idaho native. ---
**Author:** ![Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Levolor_the_Blind)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1046 "2022-04-10T05:59:40Z")
As a 37 year Idaho resident, I support this message. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1047 "2022-04-10T06:07:32Z")
We need an entire matrix of threads for political atrocities in all the red and reddish states. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1048 "2022-04-10T06:09:35Z")
I suggest one thread, called “Hold My Beer: Republicans Outdoing Each Other”. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1049 "2022-04-10T09:08:08Z")
> Kelly Tshibaka, Trump’s endorsed candidate against AK Sen Lisa Murkowski, says she wants to make it a federal crime to send birth control and abortion pills through the mail. [https://t.co/Mld1BE6kwZ](https://t.co/Mld1BE6kwZ) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1050 "2022-04-10T14:15:41Z")
Condoms too? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1051 "2022-04-10T18:35:46Z")
And literature describing birth control methods. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1052 "2022-04-10T19:15:57Z")
In the “sometimes there’s good news” sense, the DA won’t prosecute. "A Texas district attorney announced in a statement on Sunday that he will file a motion to dismiss the indictment against [Lizelle Herrera](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-faces-texas-murder-charge-self-induced-abortion-rcna23739), the 26-year-old woman who attracted national attention after being arrested on Thursday and charged with murder after authorities said she “caused the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.” > **[Texas DA dismisses murder charge against woman after self-induced abortion](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/texas-district-attorney-says-indictment-woman-charged-murder-self-indu-rcna23782)** > > After she was arrested Thursday, Lizelle Herrera was held on a $500,000 bond through Saturday, when she was released. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1053 "2022-04-10T19:50:38Z")
Good to hear for Ms. Herrera. Unfortunately, I get the distinct sense that the charges were only dropped because the Starr County DA doesn’t want to have to put up with the shitstorm that was preparing to rain down regarding this. Another woman in another county may not be so lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1054 "2022-04-10T21:35:02Z")
Is the bail money refunded in such a case? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1055 "2022-04-10T21:47:25Z")
I would suspect so, but I’m imagining that she didn’t really cough up that money. Half a million, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1056 "2022-04-10T22:50:45Z")
Why so much? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1057 "2022-04-10T23:53:45Z")
Oh boy, why are people asking me questions about this bail? I had nothing to do with it. What I know is that you usually have to come up with 10 percent, if you want to be unlocked. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1058 "2022-04-11T02:43:06Z")
10% down for most. You get most of it back, a bit like a payday loan. It was so high because the charge was murder, 500k was probably the minimum based on the charge. [The judge may have been a dick too but let’s go with minimum.] ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1059 "2022-04-11T03:18:04Z")
I think the abortion-rights outfit that organized those protests also coughed up the bail money. I wonder if there are some lawsuits waiting in the wings over this. Can she sue the sheriff or whoever it was that indicted her? The news I read said that the indictment didn’t even specify what law was violated. Can a sheriff indict and arrest someone on any old whim and not even say what law was broken? Do we have a false arrest lawsuit here? Also, I read that the sheriff got notified of the event by the hospital she went to. Is there some confidentiality or federal HIPAA violation there? Is there a state law that makes the hospital a mandatory reporter in cases like this? Is there a lawsuit against the hospital waiting here? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1060 "2022-04-11T14:01:17Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > > Kelly Tshibaka, Trump’s endorsed candidate against AK Sen Lisa Murkowski, says she wants to make it a federal crime to send birth control and abortion pills through the mail. > > [https://t.co/Mld1BE6kwZ](https://t.co/Mld1BE6kwZ) Can someone add a rider that also bans sending vasectomies via the mail? I’m just interested to see if they spot the problem… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1061 "2022-04-12T22:05:08Z")
This was just brought up in P&E but I felt it belongs here too? [Jared “Not Yet A Real Boy” Kushner received investment from Saudis.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=54)