• News
  • Life
  • TV & Film
  • Beauty
  • Style
  • Home
  • News
    • Celebrity
    • Entertainment
    • Politics
    • Royal Family
  • Life
    • Animals
    • Food & Drink
    • Women's Health
    • Mental Health
    • Sex & Relationships
    • Travel
    • Real Life
  • TV & Film
    • True Crime
    • Documentaries
    • Netflix
    • BBC
    • ITV
    • Tyla Recommends
  • Beauty
    • Hair
    • Make-up
    • Skincare
  • Style
    • Home
    • Fashion
    • Shopping
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
TikTok
Submit Your Content
Woman almost dies after being unable to get an abortion

Home> Life

Updated 11:38 18 Nov 2022 GMTPublished 11:31 18 Nov 2022 GMT

Woman almost dies after being unable to get an abortion

This is just awful.

Gabriella Ferlita

Gabriella Ferlita

Roe v Wade, the landmark law which granted women the right to abort up until foetal viability in the US, was overturned almost five months ago - and women are still being affected by the scaled-back legislation today.

And one woman has opened up about how the Supreme Court’s decision to peel back body autonomy for those with uteruses caused her to almost lose her life.

Tyla has shared the stories of those who are affected by the legislation, including one woman from Texas who ‘self-induced’ her abortion while the state she was in was living in a post-Roe v Wade state and men who downloaded period-tracking apps to cause ‘chaos’ in solidarity for those who could no longer access abortion care.

Amanda Eid and Josh Zurawski, 35, tied the knot in the city of Austin three years ago, and planned to have a family but struggled.

Advert

Roe v Wade was overturned almost five months ago.
Bob Korn / Alamy Stock Photo

Amanda underwent fertility treatments for a year and a half, and was elated when she finally fell pregnant with their baby.

“The fact that we were pregnant at all was a miracle, and we were beside ourselves with happiness,” she told CNN.

But tragically, at 18 weeks, Amanda’s water broke and they were told that their baby would not survive.

Advert

Amanda recalled to CNN of the heartbreaking moment: “We found out that we were going to lose our baby.

“My cervix was dilating fully 22 weeks prematurely, and I was inevitably going to miscarry.”

She and her partner pleaded with medical staff to save their baby, but there was sadly nothing they could do.

When a pregnant person’s water breaks during pregnancy, they are placed at risk of sepsis.

Advert

Amanda Eid and Josh Zurawski were thrilled to become parents.
Amanda Eid / Instagram

And as Texas bans abortions in all stages of pregnancy except if the mother has a ‘life-threatening physical condition’, doctors were unable to terminate her pregnancy for fear of violating the law.

Any doctor found to be in violation of this law can face the loss of their medical license and a possible life sentence in prison.

“My doctor said, ‘Well, right now we just have to wait, because we can’t induce labour, even though you’re 100 percent for sure going to lose your baby,’ ” Amanda recalled.

Advert

“[The doctors] were unable to do their own jobs because of the way that the laws are written in Texas.”

The couple was devastated to lose their baby.
CNN

After Amanda’s waters broke, her physicians asked her to return home and keep an eye out for any signs of infection.

But three days later, Amanda began shivering in the August heat in her home state.

Advert

“We were having a heat wave, I think it was 105 degrees [Fahrenheit] that day, and I was freezing cold, and I was shaking, my teeth were chattering.

“I was trying to tell Josh that I didn’t feel good, and my teeth were chattering so hard that I could not even get the sentence out.”

It turned out that Amanda was suffering from sepsis as a result of being refused a termination of her pregnancy that inevitably was not going to be viable.

Doctors were unable to intervene due to the laws in the state.
Serhii Bobyk / Alamy Stock Photo

Even after antibiotics, a blood transfusion and a termination were administered to Amanda, she was not making any progress and had to be transferred to the ICU.

Eventually, the doctors inserted an intravenous line near her heart to deliver antibiotics and medication, which stabilized her blood pressure. Thankfully, she survived.

But because of the ordeal, her uterus has been scarred due to the infection, and it is unclear whether she will be able to carry any more children.

Amanda has had surgery to remove the scarring, but it is not yet known whether it will be a success.

“[This] didn’t have to happen,” Amanda said. “That’s what’s so infuriating about all of this, is that we didn’t have to – we shouldn’t have had to – go through all of this trauma.”

If you need support and advice following a pregnancy loss, you can contact the Tommy’s team at [email protected]. You can also call them for free on 0800 014 7800 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm).

For help, support and advice about abortion, contact the National Abortion Federation on 1-800-772-9100, EST 8am-7pm EST Monday to Friday or EST 8am-4pm EST Saturday to Sunday.

Featured Image Credit: CNN

Topics: News, Parenting

Gabriella Ferlita
Gabriella Ferlita

Gabriella Ferlita is a full-time journalist at LADbible Group, writing on lifestyle, communities and news across Tyla, LADbible and UNILAD. When she's not writing, she's fussing over her five-year-old Toyger cat, Clarence.

X

@Gabriellaf_17

Advert

Advert

Advert

Choose your content:

12 hours ago
a day ago
  • 12 hours ago

    Doctors issue plea as common menopause treatment is linked to increased risk of cancers that affect only women

    The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) believe it's vital not to spread misinformation about the link between the two

    Life
  • a day ago

    Man reveals subtle symptom of 'silent disease' increasingly common among men

    Dana T discussed his symptoms with the Anal Cancer Foundation

    Life
  • a day ago

    Man who received 47-year-old’s face asked unusual question about terrifying accident after waking up from three-month coma

    Joe DiMeo was convinced he was in the 'afterlife' while in the coma

    Life
  • a day ago

    People disturbed after realising what pregnancy does to your eyes

    It looks like there's yet another side effect for pregnant women to look out for

    Life
  • Helen Flanagan leaves fans speechless after being unable to answer simple question on gameshow
  • Woman dies after getting stuck in airport baggage carousel
  • Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei dies after being 'set on fire by boyfriend'
  • Heartbroken family issues ‘chroming’ trend warning after boy dies surrounded by cans