News Coverage: Zurawski v. State of Texas
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News from the Center for Reproductive Rights
- Center Sues Texas on Behalf of Women Denied Abortions After Facing Dangerous Pregnancy Complications, 03.07.23
- Press release: Women Denied Abortions Sue State of Texas, 03.07.23
- At Austin Press Conference, Texas Women Denied Abortions Tell Their Stories, 03.08.23
Broadcast Media Highlights
- “Group plans to sue the state of Texas over abortion restrictions,” NBC Nightly News, 03.06.23

- “Five Women Denied Abortions Sue Texas,” MSNBC, Alex Wagner Tonight, 03.07.23

- “Abortion Lawsuit: Five Women Denied Abortions Sue Texas Over Bans,” MSNBC, All In With Chris Hayes, 03.07.23

- “Texas women file lawsuit against state’s abortion bans,” CBS News, 03.07.23
- “Women impacted by abortion laws file case against Texas,” FOX 7 Austin, 03.07.23
- “5 women suing Texas in attempt to clarify state’s abortion law when it comes to necessary medical procedures,” KHOU, 03.07.23
- “Center for Reproductive Rights files lawsuit against Texas abortion laws,” KXXV, 03.07.23
- “How a Texas lawsuit could impact state’s near-total abortion ban,” NBC News, 03.07.23
- “5 women sue Texas over lethal abortion ban,” ABC News, 03.08.23
Press Conference, Austin, March 7, 2023
Hear the the plaintiffs talk about their experiences in being denied abortion care in Texas, as well as more about the case from the Center’s Nancy Northup and Molly Duane.
Print and Online Media Highlights
- “Five Women Sue Texas Over the State’s Abortion Ban,” New York Times, 03.06.23
- “5 women sue Texas over abortion bans, saying their lives were put at risk,” ABC News Online, 03.07.23
- “Women sue Texas over abortion ban, say it risked their lives,” AP News, 03.07.23
- “Texas abortion lawsuit puts medical exceptions under spotlight,” Axios, 03.07.23
- “Five women sue Texas over abortion access,” BBC, 03.07.23
- “Texas Is Being Sued By Five Women Who Say They Couldn’t Get An Abortion Though Their Lives Were At Risk,” BuzzFeed News, 03.07.23
- “Women sue Texas over abortion ban, say it risked their lives,” CBS Texas Online, 03.07.23
- “Texas sued by women who say state’s abortion bans put their health at risk,” CNN Online, 03.07.23
- “Texas women with risky pregnancies sue over how state’s abortion ban forced them to flee,” Dallas Morning News, 03.07.23
- “Five women denied abortion care in Texas sue state over bans,” The Guardian, 03.07.23
- “Women sue Texas over abortion ban: Law endangers ‘lives of my future babies,’” The Hill, 03.07.23
- “5 Women Denied Lifesaving Abortions Sue Texas Over Its 6-Week Ban,” HuffPost, 03.07.23
- “Women Who Almost Died From Texas’ Abortion Ban Sue State in Landmark Lawsuit,” Jezebel, 03.07.23
- “In Texas, Women Denied Abortions File Landmark Lawsuit,” Ms., 03.07.23
- “Women and doctors sue Texas over ‘extreme abortion bans,’ say lives were endangered,” New York Daily News, 03.07.23
- “‘Sick and Twisted’: Women Describe Losing Pregnancies, Nearly Dying Because of Texas Laws,” Rolling Stone, 03.07.23
- “The Five Horrifying Near-Death Experiences Behind the New Texas Abortion Lawsuit,” Slate, 03.07.23
- “Why the Victims of Texas’ Most Lethal Abortion Bans Are Finally Going to Court,” Slate, 03.07.23
- “Women denied abortions sue Texas to clarify exceptions to the laws,” Texas Tribune, 03.07.23
- “5 women denied abortions sue Texas in landmark post-Roe case,” Washington Post, 03.07.23
- “‘I Begged My Doctors’: Five Women Were Denied Abortions. Now, They’re Suing.” Vice News, 03.07.23
- “Texas denied abortions to these women when their lives were in danger. Now they’re suing the state.” The 19th, 03.07.23
- “Five women sue Texas, say the state’s abortion ban put their lives and fetuses at risk,” Austin American-Statesman, 03.08.23
- “These women say the Texas abortion ban put their lives at risk. Now they’re suing,” CBC, 03.08.23
- “‘Sick and Twisted’: Women Sue Texas Over Harrowing Medical Episodes Caused by Abortion Bans,” The Intercept, 03.08.23
- “Five women who say they were denied abortions sue Texas,” Reuters, 03.08.23
- “5 women sue Texas over abortion ban, say it put their lives at risk,” USA Today, 03.08.23
- “Under the Texas abortion ban, a woman went into sepsis before doctors would treat her and nearly died, lawsuit says,” Insider, 03.10.23
- “No one knows when it is legal to perform medically necessary abortions in Texas,” Vox, 03.12.23