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The Guardian - US
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Carter Sherman

State abortion bans are forcing doctors to provide substandard care – new study

Two women wait in a recovery room following their abortions at the Trust Women clinic in Oklahoma City in 2021.
Two women wait in a recovery room following their abortions at the Trust Women clinic in Oklahoma City in 2021. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

More than two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, state abortion bans are forcing doctors to provide substandard medical care, new research released Monday shows.

The study describes how one woman, whose water broke too early on her pregnancy, ended up in the ICU with severe sepsis because she could not get an abortion to end her doomed pregnancy. Her story is one of dozens of narratives collected by the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, which is housed at the University of California, San Francisco.

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