In a Post-Roe World, Who Safeguards ‘The Life of the Mother?’
We talk to writer Stephania Taladrid about the story of Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick's pregnancy and a new abortion landscape that puts more women’s lives at risk.
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Show Notes
Central Texas resident Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick became pregnant in December 2021, three months after Texas banned virtually all abortions past six weeks of pregnancy and imposed criminal penalties on doctors carrying them out. Yeni had diabetes, severe hypertension and other medical conditions that made her pregnancy dangerous, and as the months wore on, she became sicker and sicker. In July 2022, Yeni and her 31-week-old fetus died. “Yeni’s death was preventable… a therapeutic abortion, if offered and accepted, would probably have saved her life,” writes Stephania Taladrid in her new piece for the New Yorker called “The Life of The Mother.” We talk to Taladrid about Yeni and a new abortion landscape that puts more women’s lives at risk.
Guest:
Stephania Taladrid, contributing writer, The New Yorker; author, the article "The Life of the Mother" - She was a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her reporting on the fall of Roe v. Wade.
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