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  Jamila Perritt, of Physicians for Reproductive Health, said of the Texas law, “What it’s continuing to do is create this adversarial relationship between patients and providers. Now, instead of caring for you in the way that I know is evidence-based, grounded in the science, and in line with your desires and your preferences as the patient, instead I’m entering the room concerned about myself.” Before Lauren Miller, a thirty-five-year-old Dallas woman, made her first prenatal appointment, she had already paid a visit to the emergency room. Newly pregnant, more than a year after having a son, she was concerned that this pregnancy felt nothing like her first. The nausea and vomiting were relentless. In the emergency room, doctors gave Miller two pieces of news: she was expecting twins and had hyperemesis gravidarum , a severe form of nausea. The good news outweighed the bad—Miller and her husband had always wanted to have three children. The couple began looking for a new car in which