Dr. R. Todd Ivey, a practicing OBGYN in Houston, Texas, opened his Sunday paper last weekend to find a letter from New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham – directed at him.

Two women are asking U.S. health authorities to investigate Texas hospitals for denying them abortions for dangerous ectopic pregnancies, their lawyers announced on Monday, highlighting the continuing uncertainty around emergency abortions in states that have largely banned the procedure.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced last Sunday an initiative to invite Texas doctors to consider relocating to her neighboring state of New Mexico, in response to Texas’s “draconian abortion ban.” The governor launched a direct appeal to Texas health care providers,

Two Texas women who may now struggle to have children because they couldn’t get emergency abortions for ectopic pregnancies are asking the Biden Administration to investigate the hospitals that denied them care.

Texas law allows doctors to terminate ectopic pregnancies, but both women say they were denied care until it was too late.

Kyleigh Thurman and Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz allege two separate hospitals denied them legal pregnancy care, permanently impacting their future fertility.