SMT-7 | Visibly pained over the news that her fetus would almost certainly not survive, Kate Cox made a public plea for an abortion, going on national television and to the courts to get a Texas-banned procedure she said was necessary to save her own fertility and her health.
Amanda Zurawski went before a Senate committee, reporting that she almost died when she was denied an abortion after her water broke 18 weeks into her pregnancy – and that she was granted an emergency procedure only when she went into life-threatening septic shock.