People are paying for state abortion bans with their lives

FROM THE ARTICLE

“These conditions are part of the danger of abortion bans because neatly categorizing patients is impossible.”
PRH Fellows Joi Spaulding, Carly Dahl, Danielle Gershon

I had an ectopic pregnancy in 2014 while on the birth control pill. In an ectopic pregnancy, a fertilized egg develops in the fallopian tube. These pregnancies are never viable, and in every case, the condition is life-threatening to the pregnant person.

When this happened to me 11 years ago, I was 29, newly married, and privileged in many ways: white, educated, housed, and employed with health insurance. I was in rough shape when I was admitted to the hospital via the emergency room, where an ultrasound detected that my right fallopian tube had burst. I’d been bleeding internally for a week and was on the brink of turning septic. I was rushed into emergency surgery, where tissue and my fallopian tube were removed.