Did you read the article at all? This wasn’t a felony crime. It wasn’t a crime at all! It was a self-managed abortion. Texas has yet to make a law criminalizing the pregnant person.
There is a law that makes it a felony to perform an abortion on another person. It very specifically does not apply to the pregnant person. Chapter 170A of the Texas Health & Safety Code.
If the hospital workers thought they had a legal duty to report the crime they would have 1. Reported it to the hospital ombudsman or attorneys so the legal experts could make the legal determination and 2. Reported it to the sheriff, municipal law enforcement agency or Rangers. People don’t report violations of law to the DA unless they think the LEA won’t think there is a crime. Which there wasn’t.
Finally, there is no mandatory reporter law for abortions. It isn’t like child abuse where a failure to report is itself a crime
Instead, someone new this DA would ignore the law and order Lizelle Gonzalez arrested. And by going straight to him, instead of appropriate and normal channels.
