'I nearly died.' A Texas woman shares her powerful testimony in Texas abortion lawsuit
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- A Texas woman recounts to ABC News Live her experience of sharing emotional testimony with a courtroom about her pregnancy complications as a group of women sue Texas over its abortion law.
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How can the government ban anyone from getting healthcare to save their lives? What kind of a country is this?
Agreed💯
These women have more courage than those lawmakers will ever have.
@LadieKatie Well it can be dangerous, rumor has it that particular fetus had conceal carry.
@LadieKatie
My favorite show is Killer Kids 😂
@LadieKatie I am quite sure that you are not a woman, and very certainly not a lady. All these women nearly died because they had to wait that the baby that they wanted and carried with love had died in their bodies and began to rot. Causing septic choc.
But, whatever gender you are, you are most certainly not a christian. Jesus would turn his face from you in deep disgust.
@LadieKatiescrew u go to hell anti choice
@LadieKatie It takes real guts to fight more for the feelings of guns more than the kids that are massacred by them in schools. It also takes real guts to defend murderous cops. It also takes real guts to label every woman who gets an abortion because she doesn’t want to or can’t donate her body parts for nine months a murderer when there’s been plenty of times in your life where someone else has died because you decided not to donate your body parts to save their life and therefore you’ve been a “murderer” as well.
This is literally stopping a doctor from doing what is in the best interest of the patient. What has happened to common sense?
Overridden by common decency
@@jimperkins6073If that's what you call common decency, I'd hate to see what you would call indecent.
There's a few neighbors I want to off because it's better for my son. I should be allowed right?
@@TradBarbie if you’re allowed to mandate pregnant people to donate blood and organs outside of their own will to save a life, everyone should be allowed to mandate you to donate blood and organs to save a life outside of your own will right? You’re supposedly all about saving all lives right? Or does your “pro-life” agenda only apply to saving the lives of fetuses? By the way, you haven’t stopped women from doing abortions, you’ve just stopped them from doing them safely. So, now not only are the fetuses still not surviving, neither are a lot of women.
@@no-barknoonan1335 Hopefully you have gotten rid of all the mirrors in your house.
Anti-Abortion keep saying it's about saving unborn but what about the lives of the mothers.
Fact is all of these mothers got pregnant to HAVE a baby.
The mother's life was not in danger. She would have gone in premature labor anyway. And she would got gotten an infection the womb is supposed to be sterile
@@drstone3418that’s not what happened in this woman’s situation. The doctors could not do anything until she had sepsis and went into toxic shock which put her into the ICU for days. Her life was indeed at risk! It’s ridiculous anti abortion laws even exist as they are so broad that they obviously don’t take into account the wellbeing of the mother!
So sorry this happened to her. That’s why I just got an endometrial ablation and got on the pill. If I can’t be safely pregnant in my state then I’m going to make sure I can’t get pregnant at all.
How was her life in danger . She would have gone one premature delivery
@@drstone3418she developed sepsis and was actively dying
They will deny your right to birth control just so you know. That is the next thing on the list. So your choice now, as a woman in a red state, is to stop having sex. Hope you aren't raped, and if you become pregnant, hope you don't have any medical emergencies. Because the doctors will let you die right along with the baby. I guess they consider that pro-life. I think it's more 'no-life' I wish you the best and sorry this has happened to you and so many women in the same boat as you
@@drstone3418why does it matter to you karen
This is totally injustice for women who needs to get abortion for a good reason. It’s not just about abortion just for the sake of aborting, this abortion ban is endangering women’s lives.
Actually it's the doctors endangering lives.
@aimeedoyle2448 - Roe v Wade was made for this. Women were dying because they couldn't get them and went to "after hours" non-medical people to get this done. Roe v Wade was saving women's lives.
Amanda 💔 sending love... bans off our bodies!! Vote
Bring all this madness to an end , Repeal the 19th amendment
@@jimperkins6073 I'd love to see how that would turn out. Good luck. 🥴
@@jimperkins6073 says the little boy who will never know what it’s like to be pregnant and be mandated to donate his own blood and organs outside of his will to save the life of another and not be able to get any excuses as to why he doesn’t want donate his body.
@@michaelaclements1418 Be quiet migrant, you have no say in this matter
@@jimperkins6073 says a boy who will never know what it’s like to be pregnant. You think you have a say when you’ll never be pregnant ever?
My friend DIED because of this!!!
I'm genuinely sorry 😔❤
I’m sorry for your loss 😢
Good.
You are probably the same kind of person who also thinks teens and young adults still jumping in a empty bouncy castle sometimes is okay too..
@@girloninternet1188 such a “pro-life” thing to say. You only care about if the fetuses are born while simultaneously not giving a f***k about the people living outside the womb. If you proclaim “pro-life” you would think you actually care about everyone’s life and and not just whether or not fetuses make it it to being birthed.
If an intruder plants a seed in your garden without your permission, should you be allowed to remove it?
siamese twins people defeat the devils philosophy about "my body, my choice" Master Source please have mercy on the fools that give support to the pro choice argument.
this is insanity, a dead mother CAN´T take care of a LIVING baby no mather how short or filld with suffering that baby´s life is what the hell😒.
I am 💯% against Texas's abortion ban however I will say the reason none of the state's attorneys showed her any sympathy is because to do so could end up backfiring for them. And for them that wouldn't look good.
They obviously despise women. Women are their sworn enemy apparently. No other explanation for this makes sense.
You are probably the same kind of person who also thinks teens and young adults still jumping in a empty bouncy castle sometimes is okay too, ;,
We just need to keep speaking up and out, no matter the consequences... Condolences to those who have and have dealt/ dealing with this incredible dehumanizing absolutely ignorant incompetent leadership. Lets not anyone forget what rights all of us women all across the globe, need and desperately deserve.🙏🏼💜
I’m voting TRUMP more now then EVER
a tiny town? who loves G-D who loves
This is what thet voted for. Women outnumber men, you have the power to vote out the sexist republicans.
Did they do that on purpose? Because they murdered 35 million baby girls.
She was not in any danger. She would have gone in to premature labor anyway
@@drstone3418 you have no clue what you are talking about. Obviously you are not an OBGYN.. and you didn’t even listen to her story.
You do know that the people of Tx did not directly vote for the abortion bill.. it was passed by the Tx Republican senators, which are a majority of men.
I’m from Texas and most of those white women just do what men tell them
*Females who are pregnant should be the ONLY people who decide what to do, are the only ones who decide over their own body, the law should make this available for those who want to use this.*
yawn
You have no empathy at all. What if it was your wife or daughter??? Don't claim to be with GOD about things you do not UNDERSTAND
@@Marie-vi6jg you’re absolutely correct. Men should never have a say in something like this.
Then go away to a different channel you little miserable bag of puke 😂
Don’t worry lady! Abbott will find a way to get you, and your little dog too!
Good justice will always pursue the wicked
WTF ARE U TALKING ABOUT UNEDUCATED OPINION
You are probably the same kind of person who also thinks teens and young adults still jumping in a empty bouncy castle sometimes is okay too -.:
@@yellowyellowyellow7894 you are probably someone who makes ridiculous comparisons and can’t think for themself.
That’s super mature
This is barbaric
This is the only abortion i support, when the mothers life is on the line and the parents have to make a choice between having the baby or not. In this case I’m sorry for the loss of the baby and this woman almost dying.
You should make that decision for yourself, not for others. Isn't that what freedom is? Who has a right to see your medical records and why? Sounds more like China not the US.
Then you aren’t pro choice
I’m pro-life and for the right of the unborn child’s life to live with the exception of when the mother’s life is on the line and an abortion is necessary for her to survive if the decision is made for her to live instead. Or in this case the baby was unable to survive or make it unto birth.
You don't get it. People like you who don't support choice for ALL women is the reason women like her are put in that position in the first place. They have to be on the brink of death before doctors will even think about intervening because they're worried about the consequences for themselves. Imagine if you went to the doctor for an emergency and he refused to treat you until he got some lawmaker's permission first who had no medical knowledge whatsoever. THAT'S what you support.
@@user-uh1to6sc8f So who makes that decision? A doctor? A senator? You? Me? I think we should worry about the unborn when ALL live children are well taken care of in this country. Maybe your time would be better spent being a foster parent, a Big Brother or Sister, or something of that nature. Something that actually helps children. Politicians seem to have zero interest in children once they are born. My granddaughter was born during the formula shortage and my daughter was unable to breast feed. It was a frantic struggle every week to find enough formula to feed her. Had friends and family mailing (at great cost) formula from Texas and Ohio to feed this loved, wanted baby. A different formula every week is not good for infants, caused diarrhea, rashes, etc. Was anyone holding rallies to feed the babies? I didn't see any. This government sent billions of our tax dollars to the Ukraine to kill Russians. Living breathing humans killed with your tax dollars. Where is the morality there?
That upset about it move to a state that is more your liking......state laws, don't like the laws of your state? Move ! It's the way it was should have been 50 years ago, now the mistake has been corrected, now you live with whatever state your in says is the law. True you have freedom, the freedom to move.
You gonna pay to move people then? Not everyone has the option to just pack up and move, nor should they have to.
@@peacelovecigarettes right? Especially when you’re about to die because your state wants to give more rights to the thing that’s living off your body and killing your body than it wants to give to you. If I’m on the verge of dying because I need a medical procedure that I can’t get, I shouldn’t have to move to another state just to get that procedure nor will my body probably give me time to do so.
That’s one Idiotic comment.. It’s all about independent states rights until it inconveniences you! I have a better idea.. you don’t like abortion? Don’t get one.. that’s your freedom of choice!
No matter what the incompetent cervix would have lead to the baby coming out and not surviving hence giving her what she wanted….
Incompetent cervix does not always mean getting sick.
Somehow bacteria was introduced into her cervix making her sick which does not always occur. There are actually many many cases of women who can get through incompetent cervix provided that it’s caught in time to fix.
I still don’t see this as a reason to abort a child. It’s going to die either way…
@LadieKatie Exactly! And I’m so thankful you did all of that for your babies and thank you for sharing your experience so everyone else isn’t afraid.
Incomplete cervix is something you made up. She should have been able to have a d and c. Dillitage and curretage D-N-C. I think it's cruel to make women deliver a dead fetus.
@LadieKatie
I wouldn't dare put my body through that. Smh
@@SUGAR_XYLER That’s what a mothers love will do. You’ll do anything for your baby. If you can’t comprehend that I’d recommend never having children because there will be many times of sacrifice on your body throughout their life.
@@gabriellafaithmckenzie
Because you're not the baby that's suffering ‼️
God bless Texas
Goddamn Texas anti choice state
@@sidali2590You are probably the same kind of person who also thinks teens and young adults still jumping in a empty bouncy castle sometimes is okay too
Says a little boy who will never know what it’s like to be in a situation like this where something is living off of his body for it’s survival and it’s killing him and he can’t get the necessary procedure that he needs done to not die.
@@michaelaclements1418 You leave on 2 table lamps with 2 different kind of bulbs. You wait to see which type of bulb burns out first after a while and how long it takes.
Would you consider this example to be a scientific experiment ?
She is traumatized because of ridiculous laws !!!
You are probably the same kind of person who also thinks teens and young adults still jumping in a empty bouncy castle sometimes is okay too
this was a miscarriage,
This whole story is BS --- What they described is a miscarriage, NOT AN ABORTION and they are trying to conflate it as an abortion to forward an agenda. don't let the emotional part of the issue cloud your otherwise better discernment.
They claim the doctors told them, "Tough noogies. Our hands are tied because we can't read the law." ??
50% of the story wasn't told - Notice they have only the interpretation of 2 traumatized, biased, activist people with no legal or medical education.
What do the doctors have to say? they didn't ask the doctors any questions about the case....
NO doctor is going to send her home and say, "whoops! Maybe you'll live or maybe not. We don't know what to do with a pregnant woman or baby."
in the written article, the woman claims they reasoned that it would be too dangerous to drive 8 hours to cross state the line to obtain a "legal" abortion in a neighboring state but waited 3 days at home w/o using her prescribed antibiotics and developed sepsis. REALLY? smart choice?
TX law : (b) The prohibition under Subsection (a) does not apply if:
(1) the person performing, inducing, or attempting the
abortion is a licensed physician;
(2) in the exercise of reasonable medical judgment,
the pregnant female on whom the abortion is performed, induced, or
attempted has a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by,
caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places the female at
risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a
major bodily function unless the abortion is performed or induced;
and
(3) the person performs, induces, or attempts the
abortion in a manner that, in the exercise of reasonable medical
judgment, provides the best opportunity for the unborn child to
survive unless, in the reasonable medical judgment, that manner
would create:
(A) a greater risk of the pregnant female's
death; or
(B) a serious risk of substantial impairment of a
major bodily function of the pregnant female.
(c) A physician may not take an action authorized under
Subsection (b) if, at the time the abortion was performed, induced,
or attempted, the person knew the risk of death or a substantial
impairment of a major bodily function described by Subsection
(b)(2) arose from a claim or diagnosis that the female would engage
in conduct that might result in the female's death or in substantial
impairment of a major bodily function.
-----------> (d) Medical treatment provided to the pregnant female by a
licensed physician that results in the accidental or unintentional
injury or death of the unborn child *does not constitute a violation
of this section*