Another day, another Texas woman dead because lawmakers decided they know more about pregnancy than the 90-plus doctors who apparently also had nothing to say. This time it’s 37-year-old Tierra Walker, a San Antonio mom who did everything right: went to the hospital, begged for care, asked about an abortion, repeatedly said she was afraid she’d die. And Texas responded with its signature brand of compassion: “Have you tried not dying?”
Walker spent months seizing, bedridden, and watching her blood pressure skyrocket to the kind of numbers that would make an EMT go pale. Her medical record literally stated she was at “high risk of clinical deterioration and/or death.” But because her fetus wasn’t in immediate danger—just her—Texas doctors did the legal CYA shuffle and sent her home to “wait and see.” Spoiler: she died. On her son’s birthday. In front of him.
More than a dozen OB-GYNs later agreed that if Walker had been allowed to end the pregnancy she repeatedly asked to end, she’d still be alive. But under Texas law, the only time you’re eligible for medical care is if you’re already dying… and even then, only if you do it fast enough to qualify as an “emergency.”
Lawmakers insist health exceptions are just loopholes for frivolous women wanting abortions for “headaches.” And honestly, they’re not wrong—preeclampsia does cause headaches. Along with organ failure. And death. But hey, you have to keep the base happy, right?
Now her son is left motherless, her family is shattered, and the politicians responsible are too busy defending their “pro-life” street cred to acknowledge that women in their state are dying preventable deaths. Because in Texas, as long as the fetus is fine, the mother is optional.
If this is what “pro-life” looks like, I’d hate to see their definition of harm.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/20/texas-abortion-death-preeclampsia/