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Dr. Austin Dennard is a Texas OB-GYN. She also had to flee the state to get an abortion. Both experiences have changed her.
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Idaho physicians like me struggle to provide health care for patients under strict abortion ban
Idaho Capital Sun
Harmonie pleaded for help as she suffered through her ectopic pregnancy in Illinois. Instead, she was denied care and lost her fertility.
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She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
ProPublica
Doctors told her she was miscarrying, but they couldn’t help until her daughter had no heartbeat.
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Her daughter-in-law had a medical crisis. It reshaped her understanding of pro-life.
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Pregnant patients in Minnesota have postponed abortion appointments to avoid ICE
The 19th
Leitaea Lowrimore went to three ERs in two states in the middle of a medical crisis. No one would treat her.
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Kishaya Holloway is an artist in Arkansas. She never questioned her decision to have an abortion, only the barriers that made it difficult to access care.
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Mother whose daughter was kept on life support due to abortion ban speaks out
ABC News
A pregnant mother in ICE detention says she’s bleeding — and hasn’t seen a doctor in weeks
The 19th
‘I almost died trying to get an abortion in Iowa’—a mother of 4 speaks out
Iowa Starting Line
Theresa Van tried to grow her family in Arkansas. She was forced to carry a pregnancy that could not survive.
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Chelsea Stovall didn’t think she’d ever need an abortion—then Arkansas forced her to flee the state for one.
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A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
ProPublica
She needed an abortion but KY’s ban prevented it. “Somebody is going to die,” doctors warn.
Lexington Herald Leader