Amanda Zurawski developed a life-threatening infection last year after her water broke when she was only 18 weeks pregnant. Her doctors refused to intervene to induce labor even though there was no way her baby would survive.
Amanda and Josh Zurawski at their home in Austin on Oct. 20. Eighteen weeks into Amandas pregnancy, her doctor diagnosed her with an incompetent cervix and told her that the baby would not survive., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
WASHINGTON — An Austin woman who nearly died after being denied a medical intervention because of Texas’ abortion laws will be one of first lady Jill Biden’s guests at the State of the Union address Tuesday. Amanda Zurawski and her husband, Josh, will join Biden in her viewing box for the president’s annual speech in order to highlight the administration’s desire to address abortion access, according to the White House.
Last year, Zurawski’s water broke when she was only 18 weeks pregnant. Although there was no way her fetus would ultimately survive, there was still cardiac activity, so, citing the state’s abortion laws. Instead, they sent her home. Only after Zurawski developed sepsis, a life-threatening infection, were doctors willing to terminate her pregnancy.
Texas’ near-total abortion ban allows the procedure only to save the life of the pregnant patient. But since the law went into effect this summer,
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