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Amanda Zurawski and her husband were “beyond thrilled” to soon welcome their first child, a daughter named Willow, last fall following more than a year of “grueling” fertility treatments. However, things took a tragic turn for the Texas couple. During her second trimester, Zurawski began experiencing odd symptoms and, after a medical exam, learned that she had dilated prematurely because of a condition known as cervical insufficiency. Shortly after the diagnosis, her water broke at just 17 weeks

the world to me,” a grateful Brittni Silva texted her best friends, Jackie Noyola and Amy Carpenter, last July. “I’m so lucky to have y’all. Really.”

A month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Houston mother of two experienced an unplanned pregnancy with her now ex-husband and allegedly sought abortion care with the help of her friends. For nearly a year, Texas had imposed a six-week abortion ban, and a full “trigger” ban would be enacted in just a few weeks. Silva needed

When Nakeenya Wilson learned she was pregnant with her third child, she felt fear, not joy.

The Texas mother had nearly lost her life while giving birth to her son in 2016, leaving her with deep anxiety over her pregnancy the following year. Her unborn child became stuck in her pelvis, a complication known as shoulder dystocia. Medical staff straddled Wilson and manually pushed on her stomach, a painful procedure. He emerged blue, limp and not breathing, recalls an emotional Wilson.

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