In a Post-Roe World, Who Safeguards ‘The Life of the Mother?’

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Central Texas resident Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick became pregnant in December 2021, three months after Texas banned virtually all abortions past six weeks of pregnancy and imposed criminal penalties on doctors carrying them out. Yeni had diabetes, severe hypertension and other medical conditions that made her pregnancy dangerous, and as the months wore on, she became sicker and sicker. In July 2022, Yeni and her 31-week-old fetus died. “Yeni’s death was preventable… a therapeutic abortion, if offered and accepted, would probably have saved her life,” writes Stephania Taladrid in her new piece for the New Yorker called “The Life of The Mother.” We talk to Taladrid about Yeni and a new abortion landscape that puts more women’s lives at risk. Guest: Stephania Taladrid, contributing writer, The New Yorker; author, the article "The Life of the Mother" - She was a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her reporting on the fall of Roe v. Wade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.4	Coming up on forum, the story of Yenifer Alvarez Estrada Glick from central Texas, who became pregnant three months after the state banned virtually all abortions past six weeks of pregnancy and imposed criminal penalties on doctors carrying them out.
1:07.0	Yenny had medical conditions that made pregnancy dangerous, and as the months wore on, became
1:12.1	sicker and sicker.
1:13.9	Yet she was never given the option of ending the pregnancy to save her life.
1:18.0	In July 2022, Yenny and her fetus died.
1:22.3	The New Yorker Stephanie Ataladred tells Yenny's story in a piece that asks, did an abortion
1:27.2	ban cost a young Texas woman
1:28.9	her life? We learn more after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Several states with abortion
1:40.5	ban say they make exceptions for medical emergencies or when the life of the mother is at risk.
1:47.1	Two stories from Texas are a window into what those words actually mean, the recent case of Kate Cox and Dallas,
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