Texas adopts guidance for how doctors should interpret abortion ban
6 months ago

Texas adopts guidance for how doctors should interpret abortion ban

Raw Story  

"Texas adopts guidance for how doctors should interpret abortion ban" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. The Texas Medical Board on Friday adopted guidance for how doctors should interpret the state’s new abortion laws, reducing paperwork requirements some saw as overly burdensome but declining to provide a list of cases in which an abortion would be legal. “But my hope would be, and my strong recommendation would be, that any entities out there would defer to the actions of the medical board and its judgment when a complaint has come in as to whether something was appropriate or not.” The final guidance Texas law bans abortion, except when a doctor, in their “reasonable medical judgment,” believes it is necessary to save the life or protect the health of the pregnant patient. The Texas Medical Board was initially hesitant to offer doctors guidance on how they should interpret this medical exception, even after the Texas Supreme Court called on the board to “assess various hypothetical circumstances, provide best practices, identify red lines, and the like.” But after health care lobbyists and lawyers Steve and Amy Bresnen filed an official petition, calling on the board to act, it took on the charge. “A cesarean hysterectomy can lead to five liters of blood loss in three minutes,” said Dr. Joseph Valenti, an OB/GYN who serves on the Texas Medical Association’s Board of Trustees.

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Abortion suit against doc came from boyfriend with 'your body, my choice' vendetta: expert
1 week ago

Abortion suit against doc came from boyfriend with 'your body, my choice' vendetta: expert

Raw Story  

A legal expert gave an eyebrow-raising opinion on a controversial effort in Texas, where the state's far-right attorney general last week sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman in suburban Dallas. "As we discussed on @Morning_Joe today, part of what's so chilling about Ken Paxton's lawsuit against a New York OB/GYN is how it likely …

Far-right Texas AG sues doctor — in New York — for mailing woman abortion pills
1 week, 3 days ago

Far-right Texas AG sues doctor — in New York — for mailing woman abortion pills

Raw Story  

Far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor on Friday that he accused of unlawfully providing a Texas woman abortion pills in violation of the conservative state’s strict abortion laws. The state’s three-term Republican attorney general claimed in the lawsuit filed Friday that physician Margaret Daley Carpenter violated a Texas law banning a physician from mailing or …

Shield laws under fire: Texas sues New York doctor over abortion pills
1 week, 3 days ago

Shield laws under fire: Texas sues New York doctor over abortion pills

India Today  

Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the US to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned. “Will doctors be more afraid to mail pills into Texas, even if they might be protected by shield laws …

Texas' Abortion Pill Lawsuit Against New York Doctor Marks New Challenge To Interstate Telemedicine
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1 week, 3 days ago

Texas' Abortion Pill Lawsuit Against New York Doctor Marks New Challenge To Interstate Telemedicine

Huff Post  

Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned. “Will doctors be more afraid to mail pills into Texas, even if they might be protected by shield laws …

Texas challenges shield laws by suing New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills
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1 week, 4 days ago

Texas challenges shield laws by suing New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills

NPR  

Texas challenges shield laws by suing New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills toggle caption David Erickson/AP Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Sponsor Message …

'Bodies are piling up': Reporter finds GOP-led states are hiding abortion ban death toll
2 weeks, 6 days ago

'Bodies are piling up': Reporter finds GOP-led states are hiding abortion ban death toll

Raw Story  

Some Republican-led states that passed near-total abortion bans have mysteriously stopped collecting statistics on maternal mortality over the last couple of years — and some observers suspect it's not a coincidence, wrote Susan Rinkunas for MSNBC. "An analysis published in September by the Gender Equity Policy Institute found that, from 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal deaths in Texas …

Texas won't review maternal deaths post-Dobbs: report
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Texas won't review maternal deaths post-Dobbs: report

Salon  

A Texas committee that is meant to review pregnancy-related deaths in the state won’t review cases from 2022 and 2023, the Washington Post reported. Related How abortion funds are preparing for another Trump presidency According to the report, Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee members said in September the change was made to “be more contemporary.” The move has …

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths
3 weeks, 6 days ago

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths

Raw Story  

The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee revealed this week that it will not be reviewing any cases that occurred over the last two years — which just happen to be the years when Texas's strict anti-abortion law went into effect. The Washington Post reports that the move by the committee is "leaving any potential deaths related to abortion …

Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments
4 weeks ago

Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments

Raw Story  

Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her. But when Dr. Andrew Ryan Davis, the obstetrician on duty, finally arrived, he said it was the hospital’s “routine” to give a drug called misoprostol to help the body pass the tissue, …

Harris to Campaign in Texas to Highlight State's Abortion Ban
2 months ago

Harris to Campaign in Texas to Highlight State's Abortion Ban

Associated Press  

Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in Texas to highlight the state's restrictive abortion laws. She will visit Houston to tell a story about Donald Trump's role in eliminating Roe v. Wade, what that's meant for people in a state like Texas, and the stakes — if you live in a state currently without an abortion ban — that could …

Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case

LA Times  

The Supreme Court let stand a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations if they would break Texas law. The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans. The justices did not detail their reasoning for …

Column: As 10 states prepare to vote on abortion rights, Texas shows that abortion bans kill women
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: As 10 states prepare to vote on abortion rights, Texas shows that abortion bans kill women

LA Times  

Rob Bonta, left, at a news conference Monday with Anna Nusslock, who says she was illegally denied an emergency abortion at a Catholic hospital in Eureka this year. — Nancy L. Cohen, president, Gender Equity Policy Institute There can no longer be any doubt that the abortion bans enacted in more than 20 states threaten women’s health. The bellwether state …

Texas sues to stop a rule that shields the medical records of women who seek abortions elsewhere
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Texas sues to stop a rule that shields the medical records of women who seek abortions elsewhere

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has sued the Biden administration to try to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek abortion where it is legal. The rule essentially prohibits state or local officials from gathering medical records related to reproductive health care for a civil, criminal or …

Texas women denied care for ectopic pregnancies proves exceptions are a "farce", experts say
4 months, 1 week ago

Texas women denied care for ectopic pregnancies proves exceptions are a "farce", experts say

Salon  

Several days after Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz found out she was pregnant in Texas, she started to experience bleeding and cramping. “I ended up losing half of my fertility and if I was made to wait any longer, it’s very likely I would have died.” This week, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed two complaints against two Texas hospitals — …

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban
6 months ago

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Texas medical panel on …

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban
6 months ago

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas medical panel on Friday approved guidance for doctors working under one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans but refused to list specific exceptions to the law, which doctors have complained is dangerously unclear. The decision by the Texas Medical Board came less than a month after the state Supreme Court upheld the law that …

"I wasn't dead enough for an abortion": Texas mom blames Trump for almost losing her life
6 months, 3 weeks ago

"I wasn't dead enough for an abortion": Texas mom blames Trump for almost losing her life

Salon  

Lauren Miller was pregnant with twins when she landed in the emergency room after 36 straight hours of vomiting. Related How abortion bans are impacting pregnant patients across the country "As my medical providers tried to counsel me on my options," Miller said, "they would just stop mid-sentence, looking for the right words. Last week, the state's all-Republican Supreme Court …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge from women denied abortion during emergencies
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge from women denied abortion during emergencies

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Texas Supreme Court justices then overturned …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a closely watched challenge to the state’s restrictive abortion ban, ruling against a group of women who had serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the U.S. to testify in court about being denied abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned. The court said the law’s exceptions, as written, …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions

LA Times  

Amanda Zurawski had been told that she had a condition that meant her fetus would not survive. The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications. The unanimous ruling from the court, whose nine justices are all elected Republicans, …

Texas Supreme Court rules against women who say their lives were endangered by state abortion ban
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rules against women who say their lives were endangered by state abortion ban

Salon  

All nine Republican justices of the Texas Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the state's strict abortion ban on Friday that was brought by a group of women who said their lives were put at risk when they suffered serious pregnancy complications and could not access the necessary medical care. They claimed this happened because the state's abortion law isn’t …

How a Texas man is testing out-of-state abortions by asking a court to subpoena his ex-partner
7 months, 2 weeks ago

How a Texas man is testing out-of-state abortions by asking a court to subpoena his ex-partner

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas man is petitioning a court to authorize an obscure legal action to find out who allegedly helped his former partner obtain an out-of-state abortion, setting up the latest test of the reach of statewide abortion bans. As some states work to expand abortion access and others impose more limits following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning …

Texas, Idaho abortion bans test against federal emergency medicine rule
8 months ago

Texas, Idaho abortion bans test against federal emergency medicine rule

Raw Story  

"Texas, Idaho abortion bans test against federal emergency medicine rule" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Texas, meanwhile, has sued the Biden administration, saying it's using EMTALA as an end-run around state abortion bans to “mandate that …

Tennessee women fight to block state’s abortion ban after being denied treatment for dangerous pregnancies
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Tennessee women fight to block state’s abortion ban after being denied treatment for dangerous pregnancies

The Independent  

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Texas medical panel won’t provide list of exceptions to abortion ban
9 months ago

Texas medical panel won’t provide list of exceptions to abortion ban

Associated Press  

DALLAS — A Texas medical panel on Friday rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the U.S., which physicians say is dangerously unclear and has forced women with serious pregnancy complications to leave the state. The board’s proposed guidelines on exceptions to Texas’ ban on abortion from the moment of fertilization, issued …

Asked to clear up abortion bans, GOP leaders blame doctors and misinformation for the confusion
9 months, 1 week ago

Asked to clear up abortion bans, GOP leaders blame doctors and misinformation for the confusion

LA Times  

South Dakota legislators listen while Gov. The Republican-controlled South Dakota Legislature wants to create a video in which medical experts — and the state’s attorneys — would explain to doctors and patients when abortions can be legally performed. The first-in-the-nation idea is wholeheartedly supported by SBA Pro-Life, one of the country’s largest antiabortion groups, which says the video will help …

Asked to clear up abortion bans, GOP leaders blame doctors and misinformation for the confusion
9 months, 1 week ago

Asked to clear up abortion bans, GOP leaders blame doctors and misinformation for the confusion

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear, resulting in denied treatment to some pregnant women in need. The Republican-controlled South Dakota Legislature wants to create a video in which medical experts — and the state’s attorneys — …

Kansas could make doctors ask patients why they want abortions, then report it
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Kansas could make doctors ask patients why they want abortions, then report it

LA Times  

Kansas House Health and Human Services Committee Chair Brenda Landwehr, left, consults with Majority Whip Susan Estes during the House’s session Wednesday in Topeka, Kan. Landwehr and other antiabortion lawmakers are pursuing a bill to require providers to ask their patients why they are having abortions and to report their answers to the state. Kansas would require abortion providers to …

Court says Texas can ban emergency life-saving abortions despite federal guidance
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Court says Texas can ban emergency life-saving abortions despite federal guidance

Salon  

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. “When a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life of the pregnant person — or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA’s emergency medical condition definition — that state law is preempted,” …

In Texas case, federal appeals panel says emergency care abortions not required by 1986 law
11 months, 3 weeks ago

In Texas case, federal appeals panel says emergency care abortions not required by 1986 law

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — The Biden administration cannot use a 1986 emergency care law to require hospitals in Texas hospitals to provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The administration issued guidance that year saying hospitals “must” provide abortion services if there’s a risk to the mother’s life, citing the …

How Republicans paved the road to Texas with misogyny
1 year ago

How Republicans paved the road to Texas with misogyny

Raw Story  

As Donald Trump embraces an online campaign filled with vulgar imagery attacking women, he continues to brag that he “killed” abortion by appointing Supreme Court justices who, with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, reversed more than 50 years of women’s reproductive freedom. Demanding access to out-of-state abortion medical records, Republican AGs claimed, fantastically, that there was no …

'Outrageous': Biden on woman forced to leave Texas for abortion
1 year ago

'Outrageous': Biden on woman forced to leave Texas for abortion

Hindustan Times  

US President Joe Biden said it was "outrageous" that a woman was forced to leave Texas to seek an emergency abortion, after the state's courts said she could not terminate her risky pregnancy. On Monday Cox left the state to seek an emergency abortion -- and hours later the Texas Supreme Court issued an order siding with the government and …

Opinion: A Texas case shows how cruel and illusory the latest abortion-ban exceptions can be
1 year ago

Opinion: A Texas case shows how cruel and illusory the latest abortion-ban exceptions can be

LA Times  

Kate Cox, whose fetus had a fatal diagnosis, had to leave her home state of Texas in order to obtain an abortion. A historic drama playing out in Texas ended Tuesday when the Texas Supreme Court held that Kate Cox, a woman 20 weeks pregnant with a fetus with trisomy 18, an almost always fatal abnormality, could not legally end …

Kate Cox’s Texas abortion: the lie at the heart of overturning Roe v. Wade is now in plain sight.
1 year ago

Kate Cox’s Texas abortion: the lie at the heart of overturning Roe v. Wade is now in plain sight.

Slate  

Here is a partial list of the not-medically-trained people who made the medical determination that terminating Kate Cox’s 20-plus-week-old pregnancy would not fall under an approved exception to Texas’ three overlapping abortion bans. Not one of these people, mind you, knows anything about pregnancy, medicine, or Kate Cox’s life, they each just decided that because she did not suffer from …

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say
1 year ago

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal condition left the state to get an abortion elsewhere before the state Supreme Court on Monday rejected her unprecedented challenge of one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, had spent nearly a week seeking court permission in Texas to …

Opinion: This Texas woman is exposing a chilling truth about abortion law
1 year ago

Opinion: This Texas woman is exposing a chilling truth about abortion law

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Jr. But given the popularity of abortion rights — and the obvious tragedy faced by women like Cox — why are states like Texas fighting so hard to defend their narrow exceptions? Conceding that a woman like Cox is right could threaten to send much else about criminal abortion laws toppling …

Texas Supreme Court halts order allowing emergency abortion
1 year ago

Texas Supreme Court halts order allowing emergency abortion

Al Jazeera  

Case seen as major test since constitutional right to abortion in the United States was overturned last year. The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily halted a lower court’s ruling that allowed a woman who is 20 weeks pregnant to get an abortion despite the conservative US state’s ban on the procedure. The one-page order from the all-Republican top court was …

Texas court allows first abortion since ban
1 year ago

Texas court allows first abortion since ban

ABC  

A Texas judge has ruled that a woman with a complicated, likely non-viable pregnancy can get an abortion, in what her lawyers say is the first such case since the US Supreme Court last year allowed states to ban abortion. Key points: The state's abortion ban includes only a narrow exception on health grounds The ruling does not expand abortion …

Texas judge grants pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite state’s ban
1 year ago

Texas judge grants pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite state’s ban

LA Times  

A Texas judge Thursday granted a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis permission to obtain an abortion — an unprecedented challenge over bans enacted in more than a dozen states since Roe vs. Wade was overturned. State District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, a Democrat, said she would grant a temporary restraining order that would allow Cox to have …

A pregnant Texas woman is asking a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban
1 year ago

A pregnant Texas woman is asking a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday to let her have an abortion, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. Although Texas allows exceptions, doctors and women have argued in court this year that …

Texas county makes it illegal to transport women across state lines for abortions
1 year, 1 month ago

Texas county makes it illegal to transport women across state lines for abortions

The Telegraph  

A Texas county has passed a law outlawing transporting women across state lines to have an abortion. The proposed Amarillo ban would apply to all roads which run through the city of 200,000 leading to New Mexico and Colorado, another state where abortion remains legal. “We see this as a prohibition on abortion trafficking.” Pro-life and anti-abortion battleground Travel bans …

How the Texas trial changed the story of abortion rights in America
1 year, 4 months ago

How the Texas trial changed the story of abortion rights in America

Salon  

During the five decades that followed Roe v. Wade, lawsuit after lawsuit in states across the country chipped away at abortion rights. "All of these secrets — abortion, miscarriage, the blurring of miscarriage and abortion — that's something people viscerally appreciate now." Before the Supreme Court's conservative majority eliminated a federal right to abortion last June, polls showed that nationwide …

Texas judge temporarily lifts abortion ban for medical emergencies
1 year, 4 months ago

Texas judge temporarily lifts abortion ban for medical emergencies

The Hindu  

A court in Texas on Friday issued a temporary order siding with a group of women and doctors who brought a lawsuit challenging the state's abortion bans. The case, which was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights, argues that the way medical exceptions are defined in Texas' laws is confusing, stoking fear among doctors and causing a "health crisis." …

Texas judge sides with women after harrowing testimony over anti-abortion law
1 year, 4 months ago

Texas judge sides with women after harrowing testimony over anti-abortion law

The Independent  

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A judge has ruled Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications
1 year, 4 months ago

A judge has ruled Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge ruled Friday the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges. State District Judge Jessica Mangrum’s ruling granted a temporary injunction that prevents Texas from enforcing the ban against physicians who in their “good faith judgment” end …

A judge has ruled Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications
1 year, 4 months ago

A judge has ruled Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications

LA Times  

Amanda Zurawski, who developed sepsis and nearly died after being refused an abortion when her water broke at 18 weeks, left, and Samantha Casiano, who was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term and give birth to a baby who died four hours after birth, center, stand with their attorney Molly Duane outside the Travis County Courthouse on July …

Texas abortion bans are back in place after state appeals judge's order
1 year, 4 months ago

Texas abortion bans are back in place after state appeals judge's order

NPR  

Texas abortion bans are back in place after state appeals judge's order Enlarge this image toggle caption Sarah McCammon/NPR Sarah McCammon/NPR The Texas attorney general's office has filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court, effectively blocking a judge's hours-old order that temporarily lifted a ban on emergency abortions. In her ruling, Travis County District Judge Jessica Mangrum wrote that …

Texas women detailed agonising pregnancies after being denied abortions. The state blames doctors
1 year, 5 months ago

Texas women detailed agonising pregnancies after being denied abortions. The state blames doctors

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In her harrowing testimony in the second day …

Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law
1 year, 5 months ago

Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — For the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas women who were denied abortions testified in a court Wednesday of carrying babies they knew would not survive and continuing pregnancies that put their health in worsening danger. “I survived sepsis and I don’t think today was much less traumatic than that,” said Amanda Zurawksi, one …

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