Women from across Texas will head to a state district court in Austin today to testify in a case that could determine access to certain emergency abortion services in the state.
speaks at a Center for Reproductive Rights press conference outside the Texas Capitol in March.
“The experiences of the women — all of whom had wanted pregnancies — clearly demonstrate that the state’s abortion bans are endangering the health, fertility and lives of patients facing severe pregnancy complications,” said Molly Duane, senior staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights. “The court must act to immediately block these dangerous laws and prevent further irreparable harm to even more Texans.
“I would stay [in the ICU] for three days as medical professionals battled to save my life,” Zurawski told the committee. “I spent another three days in a less critical unit of the hospital, all because I was denied access to reasonable health care due to Texas’ new abortion bans.”
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