AManda Zurawski has never become an active. But in 2022, when she was four years old after years of trying, her life changed forever. She expanded very early, broken her water in just 18 weeks, and suddenly, her pregnancy was in distress. Zarfski’s doctors told her “with full certainty” that she would lose the child.
If Zervski, now 37, lived in another state, or at another time, her doctors were able to provide standard medical treatment, in this case miscarriage. She was able to heal and continue a healthy pregnancy. But Zorrevski lived in Texas in the wake of supreme court Dobbs resolution. Its waters erupted in the same week in which the trigger law entered into the Texas into force, prohibiting abortion in almost all circumstances.
Because her fetus still has pulses, her doctors could not treat her miscarriage. “I had to wait until the child died inside me or to be on the door of death before I was able to care,” she says. I went to the septic shock and was taken to the hospital for a week. “Now the genital members are at risk,” she says.
After publicly sharing her story, Zodrafski became the main prosecutor at the Case Center at the Reproductive Rights Center that challenges the ban on abortion in Texas. That lawsuit, Zurawski v. Texasfor I inspire others throughout the country. Zurawski has become the face of the abortion rights movement, and her story has become one of the most prominent examples of abortion risks to women’s health.
In May 2024 the Supreme Court of Texas Prohibit. Zorrevki recalls that the decision seemed to be a “slap in the face.” “They felt that they were trying to get rid of our voices, wipe us out of history, and our silence.”
Zurawski refused Retreat. Dozens of trips in the campaigns of President Joe Biden, then Vice President Kamala Harris over the year 2024, warned of the risks that Donald Trump’s presidency will pose to reproductive justice.
After Harris lost, Zerfarsi destroyed. But she did not allow herself to switch for a long time. “The selection control movement wants us to get tired, it wants us to rest,” she says. “Not in the nature of surrender. It may get worse, and it will, if we do not continue to fight.”
