After four rounds of in vitro fertilization, Kristen Anaya and her husband were elated to discover Anaya was finally pregnant – with a baby girl – last April. The 42-year-old Dallas-area woman called IVF a “long and emotional journey”. Despite the cost and struggle, the process was well worth it for Anaya, who wanted to grow her family.
However, the good news would give way to an unexpectedly grueling and traumatic pregnancy that forced her to suffer for days before receiving care, due to Texas’s severe abortion bans.
