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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Eleanor Klibanoff

How Texas’ abortion laws turned a heartbreaking fetal diagnosis into a cross-country journey

Lauren Hall stands for a portrait in the room that would have been her child’s in her home on September 10, 2022. Hall had a non-viable pregnancy and had to leave the state in order to terminate, revealing gaps in the state's miscarriage exception after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Lauren Hall stands for a portrait on Sept. 10, 2022, in the room that she and her husband had prepared as a nursery. Hall had to travel to Seattle for an abortion after receiving a lethal fetal diagnosis, for which Texas’ abortion laws make no exception. (Credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune)

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The protesters outside the Seattle abortion clinic waved pictures of bloody fetuses, shouting that she was a “baby killer” and begging her to choose life.

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