'Without the ability to offer abortion to their patients, all 28 women were managed expectantly. This is a medical way of saying that they waited for something terrible to happen. That wait lasted, on average, nine days.'
The long delayed maternal mortality report for Texas. Ectopic pregnancies, suicide, and homicide are the leading causes of death 'impacting Black women worst of all.'
texastribune.org/2022/12/15/tex…
3 months later...
'A narrow exception allows for abortions when the mother's life or "a major bodily function" is in imminent danger, but there are no exceptions in Texas law for the diagnosis of a fetal anomaly, no matter how severe.'
npr.org/sections/healt…
"I love my baby, but she should be at rest by now. I just keep thinking that over and over again – my baby should be at rest, I shouldn't have to put her through this."
Forced to carry her pregnancy to term and deliver after discovering the fetus was diagnosed with a lethal condition.
An Oklahoma mother of 3 living children: 'Her emergency room doctor told her she was at risk of hemorrhage and even death, but that the hospital couldn’t provide treatment.'
Forced to crash from septic shock before doctors intervened. Cruel, dangerous, absolutely WRONG.
A glimmer of commonsense - finally. How long it will hold, who knows. This is Texas after all. texastribune.org/2023/08/04/tex…
Calls for even stricter abortion laws in first Texas GOP convention since Roe's overturn - 'If you do go across state lines to commit murder of the unborn, you come back and an investigation determines its so, you can be brought up on charges.' tpr.org/government-pol…
Idaho has lost nearly a quarter of its OB-GYNs and more than half of its maternal-fetal medicine specialists since Roe v Wade was thrown to the gutter. This poor woman had to be flown to another state for life saving emergency care.
'the ectopic pregnancy had grown too large, and ruptured. Thurman nearly bled to death and had to have her right fallopian tube removed.'
'the mass had grown so large that it required also removing her right fallopian tube and 75% of her right ovary.'
texastribune.org/2024/08/12/tex…
South Carolina woman Amari Marsh jailed and threatened with life in prison for her body's miscarriage.
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