Lizzie Presser

1 month ago | propublica.org | Cassandra Jaramillo |Lizzie Presser |Jessica Schreifels |T. Christian Miller

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Texas Senate has unanimously passed legislation that aims to prevent maternal deaths under the state’s strict abortion ban. Written in response to a ProPublica investigation last year, Senate Bill 31, called The Life of the Mother Act, represents a remarkable turn among the Republican lawmakers who were the original supporters of the ban.

Mar 4, 2025 | propublica.org | Amy Yurkanin |Mara Silvers |J. David McSwane |Lizzie Presser

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Georgia recently relaunched its maternal mortality review committee after dismissing all 32 of its members last year. But state officials won’t say who the current members are.

Feb 26, 2025 | propublica.org | Mara Silvers |J. David McSwane |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. In late 2020, St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena, Montana, fired its oncologist, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner, and took the extraordinary step of publicly accusing him of hurting patients. The hospital said the doctor overprescribed narcotics and gave chemotherapy to patients who didn’t have cancer, among other allegations.

Feb 24, 2025 | 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.

Feb 22, 2025 | 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.