The family of a 37-year-old pregnant San Antonio woman who died of preeclampsia is claiming in a new lawsuit that the Texas’ abortion ban led to her death.
The family of Tierra Walker, who died when she was 20 weeks pregnant, is suing Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Paxton, Texas Medical Board executive director Stephen Brint Carlton, the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and doctors who cared for her. The lawsuit specifically holds Paxton and Carlton responsible for Walker’s December 2024 death because of their upholding of Texas’ “merciless blanket prohibition on abortion.”
