“We were the lucky ones. We had the money, the time, and the childcare to make the trip […]. […]
Two of our co-plaintiffs […] were not so lucky: they went septic waiting to find out whether they were dead enough for an abortion, after their water broke far too early for their daughters to survive.”
Larisa Aitch
“We asked the state a simple question: How dead did we have to be to receive healthcare that could save our viable babies and our own lives? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called us ‘woke.’”
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Texas’ attorney general said we weren’t dead enough for an abortion — that our doctors were right to deny us care.
