Family sues Ken Paxton and doctors, claiming Texas abortion ban led to pregnant woman’s death

The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition ​has sued the state’s Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an abortion ‌could have saved her life and the state’s near-total ban on the procedure is unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in state court in San Antonio by the family of Tierra Walker claims her doctors refused her requests to perform an abortion even though she was having a ​medical emergency that qualified for an exception from Texas’ strict abortion laws. Walker, who was 37 and 20 ​weeks pregnant, died in December 2024 two days after her final hospital visit for symptoms ⁠of preeclampsia, a potentially fatal complication of pregnancy marked by high blood pressure, according to the lawsuit.