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A lawsuit filed in San Antonio claims that Texas’s strict abortion ban led to the death of Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old woman who died from preeclampsia complications in December 2024. The suit alleges that doctors refused to perform an emergency abortion despite her medical condition qualifying for an exception under state law. The lawsuit targets Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other healthcare institutions and professionals, arguing that the ban violates both federal and state constitutional rights and deters necessary medical interventions.
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The family of Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old woman who died in December 2024 after complications from preeclampsia at 20 weeks pregnant, has filed a lawsuit against the Texas Medical Board, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, several doctors, and Ken Paxton, the state's Republican attorney general. The suit alleges that Walker’s requests for an abortion were denied despite her condition qualifying under emergency exceptions to Texas' strict anti-abortion laws, which could have potentially saved her life. The lawsuit claims that her treatment was delayed due to the near-total ban on abortions in Texas, violating constitutional rights and medical standards.
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Texas abortion ban caused pregnant woman's death, lawsuit claims
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The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an abortion could have saved her life and the state's near-total ban on the procedure is unconstitutional.
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The lawsuit filed Tuesday in state court in San Antonio by the family of Tierra Walker claims her doctors refused her requests to perform an abortion even though she was having a medical emergency that qualified for an exception from Texas' strict abortion laws.
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Walker, who was 37 and 20 weeks pregnant, died in December 2024 two days after her final hospital visit for symptoms of preeclampsia, a potentially fatal complication of pregnancy marked by high blood pressure, according to the lawsuit.
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The treatment for preeclampsia is immediate delivery of the baby or an abortion, and the complaint says Walker qualified for an emergency abortion under Texas law.
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But instead of receiving one, she was repeatedly told her condition would improve and sent home, according to the lawsuit.
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The lawsuit says Paxton and other state officials "have imposed a merciless blanket prohibition on abortion that intimidates doctors into inaction and breeds extreme fear among Texas’ medical establishment."
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Along with Paxton, the lawsuit names as defendants the Texas Medical Board, which regulates the practice of medicine in the state and issues guidance to medical professionals, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and several doctors who treated Walker.
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Paxton's office and the other defendants did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.
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A pair of 2021 Texas laws prohibit performing or inducing an abortion, with an exception for life-threatening medical emergencies, and bar providers from performing abortions if a fetus has detectable cardiac activity.
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A novel provision of Texas' abortion ban also allows private citizens to sue providers on behalf of the state.
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The laws took effect in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark Roe v. Wade decision that had established a constitutional right to have an abortion.
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The lawsuit filed by Walker's family claims the defendants violated Walker's right to life under the U.S. Constitution and a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
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It further alleges that Texas' abortion bans violate the state constitution.
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