Abortion

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  Salon

  

  Can Texas' abortion ban be fixed? Skeptics say an effort to "clarify" the law could make it worse

  Salon - By Tatyana Tandanpolie

  When Ashley Brandt and her husband learned she was pregnant with identical twin girls in 2022, she was ecstatic. But one twin's diagnosis with acrania — a rare, fatal congenital disorder characterized by the full or partial absence of cranial bones — sent Brandt's world into a grief-stricken …

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  The 19th

  

  People in states with abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy

  The 19th - Shefali Luthra

  The risk is greatest among Black women in states with abortion bans, according to a new report. Pregnant people living in states with abortion bans …

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  Flipboard

  

  State lawmakers are weighing bills that would treat abortion as homicide

  The 19th - Shefali Luthra

  None of the bills are likely to become law. But they illustrate a growing divide in the anti-abortion movement and could punish pregnant …

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  Aileen Lalor

  

  Woman's arrest after miscarriage in Georgia draws fear and anger

  NBC News - By Bracey Harris

  Experts say the arrest is part of a pattern of criminalizing pregnancy that has accelerated since the fall of Roe v. Wade. On March 20 in rural Georgia, an ambulance responded to an early morning 911 call about an unconscious, bleeding woman at an apartment. When first responders arrived, they …

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  The 19th

  

  Reproductive health clinics are losing federal funding — and conservative states will be hit hardest

  The 19th - Shefali Luthra

  The Trump administration’s cuts to Title X could disrupt medical services for close to a million people, predominantly low-income Americans. A federal …

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  Flipboard

  

  These States Have Investigated Miscarriages and Stillbirths as Crimes

  themarshallproject.org - Cary Aspinwall

  In late March, police in southern Georgia arrested a 24-year-old woman who had a miscarriage after a witness reported seeing her place the fetal …