Harris ad shows a Texas woman who lost baby and nearly died from sepsis amid strict abortion ban

Source: local10

A new series of Kamala Harris campaign ads seek to highlight increasingly perilous medical care for women since the fall of Roe v. Wade by telling the story of a Texas woman who got a life-threatening infection when she couldn't get proper treatment after she miscarried and how she may no longer be able to have children.

In one ad, the woman identified only as Ondrea details how excited she was to have a girl only to find out that the baby wouldn't survive after her water broke too early. She was denied an abortion and eventually went into labor. “Immediately after her birth, I was in the worst pain of my life,” she says, as she and her husband are pictured in her living room near a framed photo of the baby's ultrasound. She then developed sepsis, a life-threatening pregnancy complication.

The ad is part of a final push by the Democratic nominee to highlight how medical care has grown increasingly unstable for pregnant woman — including for those who never intended to end a pregnancy — since three justices appointed to the Supreme Court by then-President Donald Trump helped overturned abortion rights.

Ondrea blames Trump for her situation.

Read more: https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2024/10/23/harris-ad-shows-a-texas-woman-who-lost-baby-and-nearly-died-from-sepsis-amid-strict-abortion-ban/

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A 13-year-old who was raped by her grandfather traveled hours across Texas to get an abortion. She wouldn't have been able to under the state's new 6-week ban.

https://www.insider.com/texas-abortion-ban-would-block-teen-raped-by-grandfather-2021-5

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TENNESSEE REPUBLICAN Reresentative. Scott DesJarlais, who claims to be "100 percent" anti-abortion after his wife had 2 abortions and he pressured his mistress to have 1 https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/nov/15/scott-desjarlais-supported-abortions-slept-patient/