Amanda Zurawski is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the Heart for Reproductive Rights in opposition to Texas. Right here, she arrives on the Austin courthouse the place a listening to was held on July 20.
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Amanda Zurawski is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the Heart for Reproductive Rights in opposition to Texas. Right here, she arrives on the Austin courthouse the place a listening to was held on July 20.
SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP by way of Getty Photographs
Cristina Nuñez’s docs had all the time suggested her to not get pregnant. She has diabetes, end-stage renal illness and different well being circumstances, and when she unexpectedly did grow to be pregnant, it made her extraordinarily sick. Now she is suing her dwelling state of Texas, arguing that the abortion legal guidelines within the state delayed her care and endangered her life.
Nuñez and 6 different ladies joined an ongoing lawsuit over Texas’s abortion legal guidelines. The plaintiffs allege the exception for when a affected person’s life is in peril is just too slender and imprecise, and endangered them throughout difficult pregnancies.
The case was initially filed in March with 5 affected person plaintiffs, however an increasing number of sufferers have joined the swimsuit. The overall variety of sufferers suing Texas on this case is now 20 (two OB-GYN docs are additionally a part of the lawsuit). After a dramatic listening to in July, a district courtroom choose agreed with the plaintiffs that the legislation wanted to alter, however the state instantly appealed her ruling on to the Texas Supreme Court docket. That transfer permits Texas’ three overlapping abortion bans to face.
Within the July listening to, legal professionals for the Texas Legal professional Normal’s workplace argued that girls had not been harmed by the state’s legal guidelines and advised that their docs have been chargeable for any harms they claimed.
For Cristina Nuñez, after she realized she was pregnant in Might 2023, her well being rapidly worsened, based on an amended grievance filed by the Heart for Reproductive Rights, the group bringing the case. Nuñez needed to enhance the period of time she spent in dialysis, and suffered from painful blood clots. She advised an OB-GYN that she needed an abortion, however was advised that was not doable in Texas. She referred to as a clinic that gives abortion in New Mexico, however was advised she couldn’t have a drugs abortion due to her different well being circumstances.
Her well being continued to deteriorate because the weeks went on and her being pregnant progressed. In June, when considered one of her arms turned black from blood clots, she went to a Texas emergency room. She was recognized with a deep vein thrombosis, eclampsia and an embolism, however the hospital wouldn’t present an abortion. She anxious she would die, the grievance says.
She lastly acquired an abortion 11 days after going to the E.R., solely after discovering a pro-bono legal professional that contacted the hospital on her behalf.
Additionally becoming a member of the lawsuit is Kristen Anaya, whose water broke too early. She developed sepsis, shaking and vomiting uncontrollably, whereas ready for an abortion in a Texas hospital. The opposite new plaintiffs are Kaitlyn Kash, D. Aylen, Kimberly Manzano, Dr. Danielle Mathisen, and Amy Coronado, all of whom acquired severe and sure deadly fetal diagnoses and traveled out of state for abortions.
The Texas Supreme Court docket is ready to contemplate the Heart’s request for a brief injunction that may permit abortions in a wider vary of medical conditions. That listening to is scheduled for Nov. 28.
