Abortion Activists Exploit Pregnant Woman’s Tragic Death to Lie About Abortion Bans

They’re at it again.

Radical abortion activists are exploiting the tragic death of a pregnant woman to try to target and overturn abortion bans that protect women and their babies.

The leftist publication ProPublica, which has been exposed multiple times for misleading readers about abortions and the terrible deaths of pregnant women, published another article about the death of a pregnant women in an attempt to falsely blame the Texas abortion ban.

Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old dental assistant from San Antonio, Texas, died on December 28, 2024, at around 20 weeks pregnant. She was a mother of three with a history of high-risk pregnancies, including a previous stillbirth due to severe preeclampsia. Her death was ultimately caused by preeclampsia, a dangerous pregnancy-related condition involving extremely high blood pressure that led to heart failure, kidney damage, and fluid buildup in her organs. An autopsy confirmed hypertensive cardiovascular disease as the direct mechanism: her heart became enlarged and overwhelmed, causing multi-organ shutdown.

The baby was health but not yet viable, with the earliest case of a baby surviving outside the womb at 21 weeks.

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Walker’s pregnancy was complicated from the start by chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, and obesity, plus new issues like uncontrollable seizures, a life-threatening blood clot in her leg (requiring emergency surgery), and escalating preeclampsia symptoms.

She endured weeks of hospitalizations, but treatment was limited to blood pressure meds and symptom management—never addressing the root issue.

ProPublica blames the Texas abortion ban for her death. Never mind that it includes very clear language allowing abortion or induction to prevent the death of pregnant women.

Doctors generally say that the medically correct, life-saving treatment for Tierra Walker — once her preeclampsia became severe and uncontrollable at 20 weeks of pregnancy — was induction of labor.

And that is 100% doable under the Texas abortion ban.

Texas’ abortion ban includes an exemption allowing abortions when a physician determines, in their reasonable medical judgment, that the pregnant person faces a life-threatening physical condition caused or aggravated by the pregnancy, placing her at risk of death or serious impairment of a major bodily function. the risk of death doesn’t even have to be imminent.

Not only is the law crystal clear, Texas passed a second law to confirm another time that medical care is fully allowed in cases like this. This was clarified and expanded in May 2025 via the bipartisan “Life of the Mother Act” (SB31).

That law shifts the burden of proof to the state in any prosecution to offer even further protection for doctors providing emergency medical care for pregnant moms.

It also mandated physician education on the laws. That law mandates one-time continuing medical education (CME) for obstetricians on Texas’ abortion laws—aiming to boost compliance and understanding.

The truth is that abortion is killing women, not abortion bans as multiple women have been killed by abortions in the years following the Dobbs decision.