But because there was still fetal cardiac activity, the doctors sent Zurawski home to get sick enough to qualify for an abortion under Texas’s ban. The law permits the procedure only when a patient would otherwise lose “major bodily function” or die. It doesn’t say when that might be. And it makes no allowance for … Read more
Cox said the state of Texas didn’t help her when she needed an abortion in December 2023. “I’m afraid the rules this board is now proposing wouldn’t have helped me either,” she told the panel. Many people commented that the rules failed to reassure physicians that they can provide an abortion without having to wait … Read more
A new report has identified dozens of examples in which medical providers say pregnant patients received care in the past year that deviated from care they would have received before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — a sign, researchers said, of a pattern of serious health complications triggered by abortion bans. Read more … Read more
