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Carter Sherman

Law protecting women seeking emergency abortions is target in US supreme court case

A person holds a sign that reads my body my choice
Abortion rights supporters protest the supreme court's decision in the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health case in Driggs, Idaho, on 2 July 2022. Photograph: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Mylissa Farmer’s pregnancy was doomed. But no one would help her end it.

Over the course of a few days in August 2022, Farmer visited two hospitals in Missouri and Kansas, where doctors agreed that because the 41-year-old’s water had broken just 18 weeks into her pregnancy, there was no chance that she would give birth to a healthy baby. Continuing the pregnancy could risk Farmer’s health and life – yet the doctors could not act.

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