The abortion laws in Texas are starting to have real effects on the women living in the state, and their loved ones.

One woman shared her story with ABC News, and the heartbreaking reality of her story is just one of the millions of ways that restrictive abortion laws are endangering the lives of people who need abortions for medical reasons – but can’t get them.

Kylie Beaton’s baby would have been her second child, and is very much loved and anticipated. Unfortunately, during the course of her pregnancy, she found out that the fetus has a rare, severe condition that impacts the development of the brain.

The condition – alobar holoprosencephaly – is not compatible with life. The brain doesn’t split into two hemispheres, remaining fused in the center. Doctors say that it results in a very painful “life” for the fetus, and certain death before or at birth.

But she cannot access abortion care in Texas, her home state. Instead, the fetus will suffer until it dies or is born and then dies horribly, unable to draw normal breath or feel normal things. Many states with similarly restrictive abortion laws also want to prosecute women who leave the state to receive the care – so it’s not always even an option to leave to receive the vital procedure.

Texas’ abortion laws try to be pro-life, but in the end they catch thousands of women and fetuses in the crossfire of righteous healthcare that stands squarely between a woman and her doctor.