Kavitha Surana

5 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Kavitha Surana |Lizzie Presser |Andrea Suozzo

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. While the rate of dangerous infections spiked across Texas after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas. Major Dallas hospitals empower doctors to provide abortions to patients with high-risk miscarriages. Most in Houston do not.

2 months ago | texasstandard.org | Lizzie Presser |Andrea Suozzo |Sophie Chou |Kavitha Surana

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.

2 months ago | msmagazine.com | Kavitha Surana |Lizzie Presser

This story was originally published by ProPublica. We heard the same story again and again this year:The women were having miscarriages. They were bleeding and in pain. They needed a medical procedure to clear their uterus, but their doctors delayed it or didn’t even counsel them about it. Our year-long investigation found that abortion laws are affecting how physicians treat pregnancy loss and other complications because the procedures used in these cases are also used for abortions.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Lizzie Presser |Andrea Suozzo |Sophie Chou |Kavitha Surana

This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive its biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.

2 months ago | matr.net | Lizzie Presser |Andrea Suozzo |Sophie Chou |Kavitha Surana

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found. The surge in this life-threatening condition, caused by infection, was most pronounced for patients whose fetus may still have had a heartbeat when they arrived at the hospital.