ProPublica Analysis Links Texas Abortion Ban to Increased Life-Threatening Miscarriage Complications
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Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, and Andrea Suozzo
Summary
A ProPublica data analysis reveals that Texas's abortion ban has led to a dangerous increase in women nearly bleeding to death during miscarriages. Because D&C procedures — used both for abortion and to treat incomplete miscarriages — have been restricted under state abortion laws, doctors are hesitating to provide them. This has resulted in women experiencing severe hemorrhaging, being discharged from emergency rooms without proper care, and returning in critical condition. The analysis adds to mounting evidence that abortion bans have made first-trimester miscarriage significantly more dangerous.
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bskyProPublica Analysis Links Texas Abortion Ban to Increased Life-Threatening Miscarriage Complicationspropublica.orgKey quotes
· 3 pulledBefore states banned abortion, one of the gravest outcomes of early miscarriage could easily be avoided: Doctors could offer a dilation and curettage procedure, which quickly empties the uterus and allows it to close, protecting against a life-threatening hemorrhage.
Because the procedures, known as D&Cs, are also used to end pregnancies, they have gotten tangled up in state legislation that restricts abortion.
Reports now abound of doctors hesitating to provide them and women who are bleeding heavily being discharged from emergency rooms without care, only to return in such dire condition.
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