{"id":304896,"date":"2024-01-10T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=304896"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T21:11:40","slug":"new-yorker-woman-died-pro-life-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-yorker-woman-died-pro-life-law\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker piece says woman died because of Texas’ pro-life law. Here’s the truth."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Texas has come under heavy scrutiny in recent months over their laws protecting preborn children from abortion, with state legislators accused of putting women’s lives at risk<\/a>, all because women cannot electively kill their preborn children. Texas laws do allow an abortion if the mother \u201chas a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places [her] at risk of death or poses a substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless an abortion is performed.\u201d Yet this is deemed to be cruel and insufficient to safeguard women’s health \u2014 so much so that an article in the New Yorker even falsely blamed the state’s laws for the tragic death of a pregnant young woman.<\/p>\n

Stephania Taladrid wrote<\/a> about the death of Yeni Glick, a married immigrant from Mexico who arrived in the United States at the age of three in 1998. In 2021, she married Andrew Glick, an Army Reserve specialist, and within a month, the couple was pregnant \u2014 and seemingly thrilled about it.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the town the couple lived in \u2014 Luling \u2014 qualifies as a maternity care desert<\/a>, a place where access to maternity care is limited or altogether absent. Most moms-to-be travel to Kyle, 30 miles away, for routine maternity care. Yet many women resort to delivering in the tiny Luling emergency room, which has only four beds.<\/p>\n

READ: \u2018Maternity care deserts\u2019\u00a0ignored in favor of expanding abortion access<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeni, who was uninsured, was a frequent visitor to the Luling emergency room, and she was diagnosed with hypertension and diabetes in her 20s. She was also overweight, and caught COVID-19 during the pandemic. Her pregnancy was considered high-risk, and from the beginning, she struggled. She bled early and had problems with breathing. Yet, as noted by Taladrid, no one ever recommended an abortion to her. There also doesn’t appear to be any indication that Glick herself asked for one.<\/p>\n

Regardless, Taladrid claimed throughout the length of her article that Glick needed<\/em> to have her child intentionally killed. Taladrid wrote:<\/p>\n

When S.B. 8 banned abortions past the six-week limit, it included an exception in cases of \u201cmedical emergency.\u201d At the same time, the law made it tricky for health-care workers to raise the emergency flag, by enabling citizens to initiate lawsuits against people who \u201caid or abet\u201d banned abortions, incentivizing them with the possibility of a ten-thousand-dollar reward. <\/em><\/p>\n

A person involved with Yeni\u2019s medical case told me, \u201cOne of the things that S.B. 8 does is undermine a sense of common mission and trust, even within a care-giving team\u2014you know, who\u2019s going to go behind your back and sue you because they watched you do your care?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Glick was struggling with being able to afford her medical care, and even though she tried to get insurance, she was having a hard time getting approved. In her article, Taladrid again pointed to the idea that Glick should have been instructed to abort her child to alleviate the strain pregnancy was placing on her own heart.<\/p>\n

Instead, Glick was given medication to help with her high blood pressure, though she allegedly didn’t take it regularly. By 22 weeks and six days, she was again in the Luling emergency room, and she had to be stabilized before being transferred to another hospital in a nearby city. Glick was suspected of having pre-eclampsia, but doctors failed to recommend a delivery then, which would have potentially saved Glick’s life. Her baby was nearly 23 weeks, and could possibly have survived<\/a> at that point in gestation.<\/p>\n