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Ex-husband sues clinic over old abortion

Patients gather in the counseling area at one of the last remaining abortion providers in the South, at the Jackson Women's Health Organization also known as The Pink House in Jackson, MS on June 7, 2022. Every month, Dr. Hamlin travels from Massachusetts to Mississippi to work a three-day shift at the clinic, part of a rotating schedule of doctors who travel out of state to provide healthcare at The Pink House. Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Nearly four years after a woman ended an unwanted pregnancy with abortion pills obtained at a Phoenix clinic, she finds herself mired in an ongoing lawsuit over that decision.

A judge allowed the woman's ex-husband to establish an estate for the embryo, which had been aborted in its seventh week of development. The ex-husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the clinic and its doctors in 2020, alleging that physicians failed to obtain proper informed consent from the woman as required by Arizona law.

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