https://www.washingtonsun.com/campai...he-susie-wilesWhite House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms
Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November
family of Tierra Walker sues for denial of life-saving medical treatment
don't women have a right to life too?
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-poli...ion-texas-ban/On September 19, 2024, Tierra Walker had several seizures in a row. For years, she had managed a condition that occasionally resulted in seizures, but it had been 11 months since her last episode. Her teenaged son called an ambulance to their home on the east side of San Antonio. In the emergency room, Walker, a 37-year-old Black woman, found out she was five weeks pregnant.
At that time, Walker already knew from experience how unsafe pregnancy could be: Back in 2021, she became pregnant with twins and developed gestational diabetes and preeclampsia, a dangerous pregnancy-related condition characterized by high blood pressure and impaired kidney function. That pregnancy ended in stillbirths at 25 weeks and derailed her physical and mental health.
As Walker’s 2024 pregnancy continued, she and her family began to fear for her health once again. Her blood pressure kept skyrocketing, regularly reaching or exceeding the threshold for a hypertensive crisis. She developed life-threatening blood clots. She experienced persistent pain, nausea, and vomiting, which triggered more seizures; one fitful night of sleep was interrupted by vomiting and subsequent seizures more than 10 times.
After one seizure, in mid-October, Walker told her aunt LaTanya that she had a vision of dead family members preparing to welcome her to the afterlife. “You better tell them you’re not ready to go,” said LaTanya. Walker replied that she didn’t know “how much more” she could take.
The next day, Walker asked hospital staff for an abortion. But Texas prohibits virtually all abortions. So the staff shrugged her off, telling her, “Nothing is wrong with the baby.” For weeks, Walker and her family continued to ask medical providers about ending the pregnancy. For weeks, medical providers continued to tell her, “Your baby is fine.”
Walker, however, was not. On October 30, a doctor noted in her file that there was a “significant probability” of “sudden, clinically significant, or life threatening deterioration.” On November 1, another doctor noted that she was at “high risk of clinical deterioration and/or death.” On December 27, two more doctors diagnosed her with preeclampsia, noted that there was “no cure,” and that ending the pregnancy “may be the best treatment.” But they discharged her from the hospital anyway, saying she was “stable enough.” She died on December 30, when her son found her unresponsive in bed. It was his 15th birthday.
An autopsy concluded that Walker died of “hypertensive cardiovascular disease with superimposed preeclampsia.” An unstated but underlying cause of death was the conservative legal movement’s creation of an environment in which doctors are reluctant to provide even life-saving abortion care, lest they be prosecuted for doing so. The inevitable consequence of blocking people from ending their pregnancies is that pregnancy ends people’s lives.
In a new lawsuit filed in a Texas state court, Walker’s aunt LaTanya aims to hold public officials responsible for their role in her niece’s death. The named defendants include Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is also a 2026 Senate candidate; Texas Medical Board Executive Director Stephen Carlton; and multiple ins utional and individual healthcare providers. According to the filing, all of them contributed to Walker’s death, and “there must be at least one door through which the courthouse is open.”
Idaho's abortion ban makes no exception for fatal conditions
Rebecca Crozier had to leave Idaho for appropriate medical care
https://stateline.org/2026/10/28/tol...ing-her-story/It didn’t take long for doctors to see that something was amiss with Rebecca Crozier’s pregnancy.
At her eight-week ultrasound in 2025, they mentioned a possible neural tube defect, she said, but after some research, she thought it was something that could be managed or treated.
“If it was a fixable problem, I was ready to quit my job and full-time care for a disabled child,” said Crozier, who is now 27. “That was something that we were prepared to do.”
In the time between the two ultrasounds, she had a dream that she was carrying a baby girl, and she and her husband named her Haven.
The couple lived in eastern Idaho at the time, and drove two hours to the Boise area to see the maternal-fetal medicine specialists at St. Luke’s, the state’s largest health system. Now at 11 weeks’ gestation, the specialists told her Haven had anencephaly, which occurs when the brain does not develop normally and the skull is left open, exposing brain tissue to amniotic fluid that causes the tissue to dissolve. It is a fatal condition.
“She was missing a lot of brain tissue,” Crozier recalled. “They were very clear that this baby will not go home with you. You will not take this baby home. This baby will die in the hospital if the baby survives that long.”
“It’s truly awful that patients can’t receive care in their home state, being surrounded by their primary care team, surrounded by their support people in their time of grief,” Harmon, who now practices in the Southeast, told Stateline.
After a few days of discussion with her husband, Crozier recalled, they decided it was best not to continue the pregnancy for the sake of both her health and their future fertility options.
Elections --> consequences
https://msmagazine.com/2026/11/02/mi...2026-midterms/Missouri voters have spoken … again. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, approximately 55 percent of voters rejected Amendment 3, defeating Republican lawmakers’ attempt to reinstate a near-total abortion ban and repeal the cons utional protections voters approved in 2024. The amendment would have also enshrined restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors in the state cons ution. After being asked to vote on abortion rights twice in just two years, Missourians have once again made their position clear: They do not want politicians taking away their reproductive freedom.
Elsewhere, voters delivered more victories for abortion rights. In Virginia, voters overwhelmingly approved Question 1, establishing cons utional protections for abortion, contraception, miscarriage care and fertility treatment. Nevada voters also approved Question 6, affirming their support for abortion rights for the second time and completing the state’s two-election process for cons utional amendments.
The exception was Idaho, where voters rejected Proposition 1, a measure that would have created a pathway to overturning the state’s near-total abortion ban.
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