Texas' abortion ban nearly killed these patients. Now they're suing.
“For days, I was locked in this bizarre and avoidable hell,” Amanda Zurawski said Tuesday outside the Texas state capitol.
She’s one of five women suing the state over its restrictive abortion law after they were denied the procedure, despite their lives being in danger—and their doctors confirming their fetuses would not survive birth. Their lawsuit seeks to affirm that doctors in Texas can provide abortions for certain medical exceptions, and seeks specific directives that outline what conditions qualify for a legal abortion in the state.
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