Heather Cox Richardson highlights Amanda Zurawski's testimony yesterday before the Senate hearing on reproductive rights.
Zurawski told her Texas senators Cruz and Cornyn about her experience of having her waters break at 18 weeks of pregnancy, making it impossible for her fetus to survive. Yet her doctors refused to abort the fetus, because of Texas's antiabortion law. She developed sepsis, gave birth a stilborn, and nearly died.
Zurawski spent three days in intensive care, with doctors fighting to save her life. Richardson writes,
"Zurawski said she wanted the two Texas Republican senators to know 'that what happened to me I think most people in this room would agree was horrific. But it’s a direct result of the policies they support. I nearly died on their watch, and…I may have been robbed of the opportunity to have children in the future. And it’s because of the policies that they support.'”
"Neither Cruz nor Cornyn showed up to hear her. Cornyn later said Zurawski should consider suing her doctors for misinterpreting the law. Zurawski responded: '[M]y physician and my team of health care professionals that I saw over the course of three days, while I was repeatedly turned away from health care access, made the decision to not provide an abortion because that’s what they felt they had to do under Texas’ law.'"
@fatamorgana Yes, they need to confront the consequences of their actions, for sure.