The first lawsuit we will focus on is Zurawski v. State of Texas.

This is a significant legal case that addresses the complexities of medical exceptions within Texas's restrictive abortion laws. This lawsuit includes 20 women and 2 doctors. We will highlight each plaintiff and the impact of Texas’s abortion bans in the next few weeks. 

The lead plaintiff in this case is a woman named Amanda Zurawski, from Austin, Texas.  When Amanda was 18 weeks pregnant, she experienced pre-term labor rupture of membranes. She was denied abortion care due to doctors still detecting fetal cardiac activity. Three days after being denied abortion care, Amanda started showing signs of infection and was diagnosed with sepsis, which is a life-threatening condition.