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Here are some ways you could describe Fatima Abdelwahab, Muslim, Sudanese, Black, Texan.

I do feel like a Texan, you know, Texans are pretty prideful, so yeah, I definitely feel

like a Texan. But the main way to describe Fatima right now is

in recovery, recovery from surgery. I've been telling my friends I can sleep on my side,

so that's an improvement. Not having to sleep on my back, you know, being able to use

a bathroom alone without help, being able to sit for longer periods of time.

You've been really physically incapacitated. Yeah, I can't lift anything heavier than

10 pounds. It's a ruptured fallopian tube that laid Fatima out. Last month, she was diagnosed

with an ectopic pregnancy, but only after it burst by coming a full-fledged medical emergency.

There are plenty of reasons it might have taken a while for Fatima to get the treatment

she needed. Ectopic pregnancies can be difficult to diagnose. Fatima was often in too much

pain to question her doctors at length. It's possible the healthcare facilities she was

at were just swamped. Maybe her doctors wanted to make sure they weren't jumping to conclusions.

But in hindsight, Fatima is left with these questions. Was her care delayed because her

doctors didn't take her pain seriously because she was a black woman? Or maybe just maybe

it was Texas' abortion ban that stood in her way. She wonders if her physicians were

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