Here's a story detailing that:
-Tina lives in Texas.
-She endures extensive fertility treatments, multiple miscarriages, and an ectopic pregnancy as she tries to have a baby.
-Her sister-in-law agrees to be a surrogate and successfully gets pregnant with Tina and her husband's son.
-About a month before the baby boy's due date, Tina learns she's pregnant.
-She and her husband don't want three kids, and don't want a baby born 8 months after the last baby.
-Texas doesn't allow elective abortion, so Tina orders pills online and aborts at home.
-Her SIL gives birth to her son, and her husband gets a vasectomy.
Full story: https://19thnews.org/2026/09/texas-abortion-ban-surrogacy-miscarriage-family/
Read an in-depth analysis on our Substack: https://secularprolife.substack.com/p/dont-go-to-john-oliver-for-news
Also worth noting: Oliver's example of Katie and the everything bagel involves an Alabama law about child abuse involving infants. The same law explicitly *doesn't* allow reports of child abuse or neglect related to unborn children (Alabama Administrative Code § 660-5-34-.04(2)). So Oliver is citing a case about the welfare of a born child – based on a law that explicitly doesn’t allow the same defense of unborn children – as evidence that fetal personhood is a major problem. It's incoherent.