Lizelle Herrera, a 26-year-old Texas woman, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of performing a self-induced abortion. She was charged with murder.

“This arrest is inhumane,” Rockie Gonzalez, founder of Frontera Fund, said in a statement.

Herrera was imprisoned on a $500,000 bond in the Starr County jail in Rio Grande City. On Saturday, abortion rights activists posted money for her release. The following day, District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez said he’d drop all charges against Herrera.

“It is unclear whether Herrera was accused of having a self-induced abortion or whether she helped someone else get an abortion, and the sheriff’s office did not say under which law Herrera was charged,” notes USA Today.

The New York Times adds:

The indictment came months after the Texas Legislature passed several restrictions on abortion. But Mr. Ramirez said that “in reviewing applicable Texas law, it is clear that Ms. Herrera cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegation against her.”

He also acknowledged 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.”

“One section of the Texas penal code exempts expectant mothers from being charged with murder in connection with ‘the death of an unborn child.’ Most states instead target abortion providers when an abortion is deemed illegal,” explains The Times.

More from the outlet:

Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said that the district attorney’s reversal reflected what Mr. Vladeck said was a misreading of the law.

“I think what this really suggests is that this was a rash decision, by a local prosecutor who might not have fully appreciated what the law does and does not prohibit, as opposed to a piece of a broader campaign of hostility to abortion,” Mr. Vladeck said. But he added it is only a matter of time before more cases like this occur.

“I think this case is also a sobering reminder of how much discretion prosecutors have — even when they’re wrong on the law,” he said. “And how difficult it is, especially for those less familiar with the system, those with fewer resources, for them to push back against prosecutorial mistakes, or overreach. And that’s a phenomenon that goes far beyond abortion.”

The Supreme Court – with its newly empowered conservative majority – is currently weighing several challenges to Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion.

Texas has recently adopted one of the most stringent anti-abortion laws in the U.S., banning the procedure after the sixth week of pregnancy, before many women know they’re carrying.

The Washington Post also shares perspectives from Vladeck:

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, Vladeck said, there will probably be more of these kinds of charges filed across the country, as other states move to enforce their pre-Roe bans or criminalize the procedure in other ways.

In the Herrera case, he added, prosecutors and others involved may be hoping to dissuade people from trying to access abortion in Texas.

One of the goals of this arrest could be to “chill people from getting abortions of any kind,” he noted.