![]() They're asking the courts to do what lawmakers, so far, have not: clarify the "medical emergency" exceptions under Texas' abortion bans. “I cannot adequately put into words the trauma and despair that comes with waiting to either lose your own life, your child’s life, or both,” Zurawski said last month, as she and four other women sued over Texas’ abortion laws interfering with the care they needed. A few weeks after Abbott gave that TV interview last fall, I shared the story of Amanda Zurawski, an Austin woman who went into septic shock and nearly died because doctors felt they couldn’t immediately intervene in her failing pregnancy. Overlooked then and now are the patients who need urgent care when their pregnancies don’t go according to plan. Perhaps Republicans have noticed the restrictions they passed are deeply unpopular with half of the state. The inaction is infuriating, considering the stakes are life and death, and Texans overwhelmingly support access to abortion when the mother’s health is at risk.īut among our lawmakers, the zeal to legislate abortion just a few years ago has turned into a reluctance to touch it. Nothing is headed for the desk of the governor, who is now silent on the issue. Yet here we are, just one month left in the legislative session, with no clarity on the maternal health exception to Texas’ abortion laws.īills have languished in committee. “I've even seen some other situations that some women are going through where they are not getting the health care they need to protect their life,” Abbott continued, adding that the legal exception for such cases “must be clarified.” In an October interview with Dallas TV station WFAA, Abbott acknowledged cases of women not getting timely treatment for an ectopic pregnancy or a miscarriage, because the wording of Texas’ abortion bans left some hospitals, doctors and pharmacies worried about violating the law. ![]() Greg Abbott was saying it, too - that lawmakers this session needed to look at Texas’ abortion laws and “clarify what it means to protect the life of the mother.” ![]() Watch Video: Texas woman criticizes GOP senators on anti-abortion laws at hearing ![]()
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