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Media Spread More Deadly Lies About Texas’ Heartbeat Law, Just In Time For Midterms

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Media Spread More Deadly Lies About Texas’ Heartbeat Law, Just In Time For Midterms

Media have spent years deceiving Americans into believing that ‘women will die’ due to pro-life policies designed and proven to save lives.

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Five years ago, a Texas law that effectively banned abortion beyond six weeks gestation went into effect. Despite saving countless lives, the statute continues to be vilified by the media and abortion activists months before midterm elections.

The latest example comes in the form of a wrongful death lawsuit accusing Texas politician and medical professionals of “deliberate indifference, discrimination, and medical mistreatment” that caused the “horrific and tragic death” of a 37-year-old San Antonio woman and her unborn baby.

According to court filings from her family, Tierra Walker had a myriad of “chronic health problems, including obesity, uncontrolled hypertension, asthma so severe she had required intubation, a seizure disorder called PNES (psychogenic nonepileptic seizures), Type 2 diabetes with hyperglycemia, gastroparesis, hyperlipidemia, and complicated prior pregnancies” before she learned she was pregnant in September 2024.

Opponents of Texas’ heartbeat act claim that most women don’t know they are pregnant until after a baby’s heartbeat is detected. Court documents suggest that Walker, however, knew she was pregnant and already having health complications at five weeks gestation.

For the months leading up to her December 2024 death, Walker was in and out of the hospital with complaints of seizures, nausea, vomiting, and other pain associated with high blood pressure. Doctors warned Walker was at a “high risk of death,” but allegedly declined family’s demands for an abortion because they did not believe pregnancy was the root cause of the pregnant woman’s problems.

The lawsuit accusing state officials and doctors of contributing to a “preventable death” comes nearly two years after Walker’s passing and a year after Pro Publica, the left-wing outlet known for smearing pro-life politicians and laws, published an article alleging Walker died “After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.” The real rub comes just three pages into the lawsuit, when the plaintiffs suggest the Lone Star State’s abortion limit is “unconstitutional.”

Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told The Federalist that “blaming Texas’ law” for........

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