Five women have filed a lawsuit against Texas, claiming that the state's laws prevented them from getting abortions despite life-threatening circumstances in their pregnancies, in what is being deemed the first lawsuit brought by women denied abortions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

The women argue that they were denied abortions despite the risk of hemorrhage or life-threatening infection in their pregnancies and are seeking for the court to clarify what exceptions are allowed under the state's abortion laws.

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"The lawsuit aims to hold the state of Texas accountable for the consequences of multiple harmful abortion bans on pregnant people facing obstetric complications," tweeted the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing the women in the case.

Abortion is banned at all stages of pregnancy in Texas, though exceptions are provided if the mother "has a life-threatening physical condition aggravated, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places the female at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function," according to the state's law.

One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit is Amanda Zurawski, who had her water break when she was 17 weeks pregnant last year, but her doctors declined to induce labor, citing Texas's abortion laws. Zurawski later developed sepsis before receiving a medical intervention.

"You don’t think you’re somebody who’s going to need an abortion, let alone an abortion to save my life," Zurawski told the New York Times.

Zurawski and her husband attended last month's State of the Union speech as first lady Jill Biden's guest after her case drew national attention, with abortion rights groups citing her case as an example of the harms of restrictive abortion laws.

Abortion opponents have argued that the laws are being misrepresented.

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"Every pro-life law in the country allows necessary and timely medical treatment to save the life of a pregnant woman in an emergency," tweeted Susan B. Anthony List, a group that works to elect anti-abortion candidates, after Zurawski's attendance at the State of the Union.