00:00 and what was your understanding at that point of what your options were for your pregnancy?
00:04 When she came in and we spoke and I can see her pain in her eyes,
00:20 and she told me that my daughter has been diagnosed with anencephaly and that means
00:29 that her skull and her brain is not fully developed
00:32 and that she was sorry. I didn't have any option. I was pregnant.
00:38 She then called in a caseworker. Caseworker came in
00:43 and they handed me a paper that said funeral homes on top of it.
00:57 What was your understanding of why you had no options?
00:59 She told me that I didn't have any options because there was a law
01:06 that the Texas abortion law prohibited. I wasn't able to get one.
01:23 I felt like I was abandoned. I felt like I didn't know how to deal with the situation.
01:33 Just as if I think I have this funeral home paper and this is just supposed to be a scan day. I'm
01:41 just supposed to know what I'm going to have and it just escalated to me finding out that my daughter
01:50 was going to die inside or outside of my womb.
01:54 What was your understanding of this term high risk?
02:07 High risk means danger. There's anything that can happen. My daughter can die before she comes out
02:18 and be a stillborn and then how would I know that she died? I could have got an infection.
02:25 I could have gave birth all of a sudden and went into labor early.
02:29 All types of things could have happened and I didn't know how to help myself prepare for it.
02:36 You've talked about the physical concerns you had for your health.
02:42 Did you have any other concerns for yourself with continuing this pregnancy?
02:49 No.
02:49 Reading that and knowing...
02:55 [Coughing]
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