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Did an Abortion Ban Cost a Texas Woman Her Life?
As many conservatives hail the fall of Roe for saving unborn lives, high-risk pregnancy becomes even more perilous.
Photograph by Carlos Jaramillo for The New Yorker
In a harrowing new piece of reporting, Stephania Taladrid tells the story of Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick, a woman from Luling, Texas, who died from complications related to hypertensive cardiovascular disease during a high-risk pregnancy. Taladrid, who has written extensively about reproductive health after the end of Roe v. Wade, explores the ways in which a Texas state law known as S.B. 8, which banned abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy in nearly all cases, may have influenced the care that Glick received from medical providers, who are now limited in the options they can present to patients. “One of the great challenges and rewarding features of obstetrics is that you have two patients,” a doctor in the state explains. “They sometimes have competing interests, and one is dependent on the other. Your job is to get both through the pregnancy safely, but that’s not always possible. And it’s very frustrating to have your hands tied because the patient who you need to save is not the one that’s protected by law.”