A Texas man who was against his girlfriend having an abortion shot and killed her during an argument in a Dallas parking lot after she returned from receiving the procedure, according to police.

Harold Thompson, 22, is being held in the Dallas County Jail on a murder charge without bond.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Thompson and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Gabriella Gonzalez, were together on Wednesday when he attempted to put her in a chokehold.

"It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child," the affidavit said. "The suspect did not want [Gonzalez] to get an abortion."

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Most abortions have been banned in Texas, with exceptions for medical emergencies, since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer. Abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which is typically around six weeks of pregnancy, have been prohibited since September 2021. Private citizens could sue anyone who aided and abetted an abortion under the 2021 law.

The incident between Thompson and Gonzalez occurred the day after she returned from receiving an abortion in Colorado.

Surveillance video from the parking lot shows Gonzalez "shrugs him off" before the couple continued walking, police said. Thompson then pulls out a gun and shoots Gonzalez in the head. He shoots her multiple times after she fell to the ground and then fled the scene, according to the affidavit.

Thompson was arrested later on Wednesday.

Gonzalez’s sister was at the scene and heard the gunshots, police said. Another witness observed Thompson attempting to choke Gonzalez but was unable to report the incident to the police since she did not have her cell phone with her.

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Before the shooting, Thompson had already been charged with assault after he was accused of choking a woman in March.

The affidavit from the March incident does not specifically name Gonzalez as the victim, but it does state that the woman told police Thompson beat her up multiple times throughout their relationship and that Thompson informed the police at the time that she was pregnant with his child.

The woman "reiterated that she is scared of the suspect because he had made threats to harm her family and her children," the affidavit read.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

California's reparations task force is recommending as part of its set of proposals to make amends for slavery and anti-Black racism that state lawmakers address what it calls "racially biased" artificial intelligence used in health care.

The task force, created by state legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020, formally approved last weekend its final recommendations to the California Legislature, which will decide whether to enact the measures and send them to the governor's desk to be signed into law.

The recommendations include several proposals related to health care, including some concerning medical artificial intelligence (AI), which the task force describes as "racially biased" and contributing to alleged systemic racism against Black Californians. 

Specifically, the task force calls for the legislature to fund either state universities or government agencies to study the "potential for harmful biases" in medical AI.

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"The task force recommends that the legislature provide state funding to the California Department of Public Health, a University of California school, a California State University school, or another appropriate entity to study the potential for harmful biases in commercial algorithms and AI-enabled medical devices," the committee writes in the final report outlining its proposals, adding that the study should also recommend how best to regulate medical AI tools in California.

The report additionally suggests the study should probe "'evidence-based research into the use of devices and tools that recommend adjusting patients' treatment or medication based on broad racial categories in the absence of information on genetics or socio-cultural risk factors.'"

The task force quotes from a recent American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) paper that it cites several times. The paper provides examples of alleged racial bias in medical AI, such as a tool meant to decide how to best distribute the limited resource of extra care to new mothers at risk of postpartum depression that, according to the ACLU, directed care away from Black mothers and favoring White mothers. 

In California, meanwhile, the reparations committee recommends that the legislature require the state's Department of Public Health to issue guidance to hospitals and other medical systems to ensure that AI-enabled medical devices "are not used for clinical applications without FDA approval or clearance, are not used on patient populations they were not intended for, and that cleared tools are not used outside of their intended use cases." That recommendation is also in the ACLU paper.

The task force additionally wants the California Department of Public Health "to make and maintain a public list of software as a medical device (SaMD) products and provide demographic information about the subjects in which the devices were calibrated or trained."

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A fourth proposal is to allocate positions and funding to the California Department of Justice to pursue claims against AI medical device manufacturers if their products have a "disparate impact" when providers use them according to manufacturers' instructions or if the products "misleadingly promise fairness."

Despite the task force's claims, however, new AI tools have helped medical professionals treat patients in a variety of ways.

One such tool called RestoreU, for example, helps physicians create personalized care plans for patients with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia. Another tool known as DAX Express streamlines the note-taking process, a benefit that has reportedly helped doctors improve patient outcomes, work more efficiently, and reduce costs.

Beyond AI, the California Reparations Task Force is pushing several controversial health-related proposals, such as mandating "anti-bias training" and an assessment based on that training as graduate requirements for medical school.

The task force is also pushing a universal, single-payer health care system as a way to achieve health "equity" for Black residents in California.