The women are some of the 15 individuals party to the lawsuit who have alleged that their lives were put at risk due to Texas' abortion laws, claiming they were denied life-saving emergency care.
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"Plaintiffs simply do not like Texas' restrictions on abortion," Cindy Fletcher, a representative for the state in the lawsuit, said. After leaving her appointment, Casiano said she looked into traveling to get abortion care elsewhere but the family was having car trouble and needed to care for her other children. She said she then "became scared" of getting into trouble for traveling for care or getting someone else into trouble if they helped her do so.
"I felt like it was torture," Casiano said. "I was so scared because I didn't know what was going to happen." Casiano testified that she has struggled since that pregnancy and vomits when she remembers certain parts of her pregnancy, but she still decided to testify because this is now her reality. "I felt like I'd been hit by a truck. It felt like the worst flu I had ever had in my life. I was so sore. Every muscle in my body was so sore that I couldn't sit up without assistance. I couldn't roll over. I actually lost control of my bowels and soiled the bed multiple times, which was absolutely humiliating," Zurawski said.
Brandt said that she traveled to Denver to receive a selective fetal reduction after one of her twins was diagnosed with a fatal condition called acrania -- its skull had not fused and it left the baby's brain and tissue exposed to the amniotic fluid.Brandt said she was advised to stay in Colorado for two weeks after the procedure but that wasn't doable so the couple traveled home just one day later.
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