A pregnant Texas mother kept getting sicker. She died after she couldn't get an abortion.

[RandySF]

Tierra Walker had reached her limit. In the weeks since she’d learned she was pregnant, the 37-year-old dental assistant had been wracked by unexplained seizures and mostly confined to a hospital cot. With soaring blood pressure and diabetes, she knew she was at high risk of developing preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication that could end her life.

Her mind was made up on the morning of Oct. 14, 2024: For the sake of her 14-year-old son, JJ, she needed to ask her doctor for an abortion to protect her health.

“Wouldn’t you think it would be better for me to not have the baby?” she asked a physician at Methodist Hospital Northeast near San Antonio, according to her aunt. Just a few years earlier, Walker had developed a dangerous case of preeclampsia that had led to the stillbirth of her twins.

But the doctor, her family said, told her what many other medical providers would say in the weeks that followed: There was no emergency; nothing was wrong with her pregnancy, only her health.



https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/20/texas-abortion-death-preeclampsia/

[surfered]

1. Texas is not a safe place to be pregnant.

[Johonny]

2. Texas law is based on the concept of openly murdering women.

[PittBlue]

3. This is so incredibly disgusting.

I have no other words.

[Whyisthisstillclose]

4. But the wives and mistresses of the assholes that passed these laws will still get whatever care they need,

including abortions

[AltairIV]

5. state sanctioned murder

[bronxiteforever]

6. Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, and the Texas GOP are killers.

Rotten people with evil in their heart seeking power and control over women. A pox on their house!

[flashman13]

8. I must disagree. They are not killers. They murdered Tierra Walker. No different than a knife in her back.

[Dave Bowman]

7. That's murder, plain and simple.😡

[Stargazer99]

9. When you stand by knowing someone might die from the situation and do nothing that's murder

Of course you know how women are viewed-as things not equal to men

[popsdenver]

10. The Dems

should have created and "Under Ground Railway" of sorts, years ago at the beginning of all this......there are tons of people who would have gladly donated money to the cause...............Especially if it was well organized, well run, and no one was making a profit off of it, like a lot of "Quasi" charities do...

[slightlv]

11. Nothing was wrong with the pregnancy... only her health.

And lord knows, the health of the mother means nothing... even if she has kids waiting for her to come home. Damn... if I didn't have some really good role models of men over my 70 years of life, I don't think I'd ever have anything to do with a man. This woman already had a pre-existing susceptibility to pre-eclampsia... and believe me, it would have affected her pregnancy at some point, if it didn't kill her first.

I had pre-eclampsia and it led to what the docs called at IUGR baby. Intrauterine growth retarded. Once she was born, we veered from one health crisis to another. Tests for hydranencephaly, tests for cerebral palsy; and other tests I can't even remember this long past the event. When she was about 7-1/2 months into conception, she stopped kicking. I told my ob on my next visit (which was about 2 weeks later), and he had me take some sort of test. Problem was, I was in complicated OB, on an Air Force Base, and never saw the same OB 2x in a row. When I went in two weeks after that first test, that attending OB had me repeat the SAME test. When I asked what the first one showed, his response was "what first one?"

My daughter was born ONE WEEK premature. They started labor on me to see how my daughter and I would handle it. When the nurse came out and asked if I felt "that"... I had no idea what she was talking about. I felt absolutely nothing... but my daughter's heart stopped beating. At that point, they did an emergency C-section. Like I said, she was ONE WEEK premature. She weighed 3 lbs 3 oz at birth. She spent the next 2 months in the neo-natal intensive care ward. When I brought her home, she barely weighed 5 pounds, and I dressed her in babydoll clothes. At her first checkup, the pediatrician told me she was behind on every measure, but that she'd "catch up" and by the time she started school, those lags would be gone. He was wrong. She's short, but so am I. And yes, I was a premie. I only weighed 4 pounds at birth. That's not such a big deal. But she is "off" mentally, emotionally, and socially. She's completely narcissistic and the whole world revolves around her. To this day, I believe that the issues in the womb left her with these life-long issues. We've been to docs, psychs, etc. I just finally accepted she is who she is and will do as she wants. period.

But that woman's doctor couldn't have been more off the farm if he tried. He lied to that woman. And THAT *should* be illegal. Unfortunately, because we're women, it just doesn't make any difference anymore.

[wolfie001]

12. Murdered by the fat orange imbecile and his christo-fascist cult

F6ck each and every one of those pieces of sh7t.

[Lonestarblue]

13. Republicans would far rather see women die than to allow them adequate healthcare.

According to them, women are supposed to suffer and it’s no real loss if they die.

[red dog 1]

14. I agree with others on this thread.....it was murder!

And that doctor who refused to help her is responsible, along with Gov. "Hot Wheels" Abbott & all the other Texas GOP A$$HOLES who proudly describe themselves as "Pro-Life".