Is a video of a pregnant woman saying her doctor told her to leave Texas to deliver her baby because of the state's abortion laws authentic? No, that's not true: The woman posted another video explaining that she is not pregnant and not from Texas. She said it was an "engage bait" strategy in which she pretended to be "MAGA" as a way to get "MAGA" women to listen to her.
The claim originated in a video (archived here) posted on the @pamelawurstvetrini channel on TikTok on October 8, 2025, with the caption:
Can a pro life person explain to me what a late term abortion is? Can I do it in Texas?
#satire The facts #satirel, the story is not. #skit
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Thu Oct 9 21:40:29 2025 UTC)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of TikTok)
The woman in the video is Pamela Wurst Vetrini, whose TikTok channel (archived here) description reads:
The facts are real, the stories are not. Content Curator. Non Trad wife. Feminist boy mom. Dissociative Tok.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of TikTok)
A day after posting the video, which received millions of views on several platforms, Vetrini posted a follow up video (archived here) to clarify her story was not real. She said it was a "little experiment" with what she called "engage baiting."
So I made a little video trying to cross the bridge, trying to tell a story from the perspective of someone who is MAGA, so that they could see it and engage with it, and it would maybe make them have a second thought.
She gave a big clue that it was not real with the hashtags on the video, which read "#satire The facts #satirel, the story is not. #skit"
The first video opens with Vetrini saying:
So I live in Texas, and I'm pregnant with my third baby, and I am pro life. I always have been. There is no greater gift on this earth than a child. But I'm kind of freaking out right now, and I'm starting to regret the way, the way I voted, the way I've been thinking, and honestly, I'm scared for my life. I'm older, so this is a high risk pregnancy. I had my two, my first two babies, I did home delivery. I delivered them at home. It was painful, but it was no problems at all. This one, I'm older and it's high risk. I had to go to a different doctor than I usually go. And she's, you know, all the way in town, so I have to drive, you know, 40 minutes in town to see her. So in this third trimester, things are getting a little bit tricky. And she said to me today, she said, You need to think, you need to start making plans to deliver this baby out of town. You need to spend the next few weeks out of state.
She said the doctor told her she should leave the state because in Texas "you're not allowed to operate on a woman who loses the baby," because it would be considered a late term abortion. She continued:
I mean, I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I literally thought that babies were born and mothers were killing them. Doctors were killing the baby after it was born. I thought late term abortion was an abortion. You end the pregnancy because you don't want to have a baby, which is but she said late term abortion is just a necessary procedure when you lose the baby inside the womb to protect the mother's life. I was like, What are you talking about?
Vetrini said she was surprised that so many people believe the video was authentic considering she has no experience acting and her "tears are very, very, very fake." She said she placed a pillow under her shirt to create the appearance she was pregnant.
