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"Medical horror stories from the first year since Roe v Wade has fallen:

• A patient had her water break at 16 weeks of pregnancy—too early for any to survive. She had to carry & deliver the dead painfully losing a liter of blood.

• A woman bled for more than 10 days after hospital staff refused to remove fetal tissue from her incomplete .

• In a women was sent home from the hospital after a miscarriage, still bleeding & without medical attention.

• Also in a woman was blocked from getting an in the state even after tests revealed that her fetus had kidney failure & heart defects. Continuing the pregnancy put her life at risk, so the woman traveled to Michigan for an abortion.

• In police charged a 17-year-old & her mother with multiple felonies & misdemeanors after the pair allegedly conspired to abort Celeste’s pregnancy on their own.

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vice.com/en/article/xgwwn3/a-y

www.vice.comA Year Without Roe: Here Are the Stories of People Denied AbortionsThis year, facing stringent bans and terrifying health concerns, people fled their home states to get abortions or performed their own.
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• A 24-year-old woman fled her home state of to get an in , only to find out that, upon her return, the abortion may not have worked. Before Roe’s overturning, the doctor could have immediately helped her but now, with abortion banned in WI the woman had to wait, bleeding and at risk of going into deadly

• In , another woman was not able to get in-state abortions even though her was . She had to travel about 1,400 miles to get an abortion in .

• In two children had recently fled to & for abortions after getting pregnant through .

• Ohio, 2 women couldn’t get treatment for while pregnant.

• In , a 14-year-old who used methotrexate to control her had her prescription denied because, her doctor believes, can be used to end a .

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• In , a middle school student who had become pregnant through was denied an due to the state’s 15-week ban.

• A resident of .C., visiting over Labor Day weekend, she began to a that wasn’t viable. The hospital emergency room released her & said good luck. Four hours later, lying in the bathtub, she became unconscious, returned to the hospital and waited some more.

• A man sued his ex-wife’s friends for allegedly helping her obtain an abortion. He accused them of contributing to “wrongful death,” & used text messages between his ex & her friends to make his case.

• In , a 25-year-old woman with a $pregnancy that is, a cancerous pregnancy that will never result in a baby was told to wait in a hospital parking lot until she became so sick that she could have an abortion.

• There are many more cases in the attached article."

vice.com/en/article/xgwwn3/a-y

Source of the excerpts: twitter.com/DarkBlue420/status

www.vice.comA Year Without Roe: Here Are the Stories of People Denied AbortionsThis year, facing stringent bans and terrifying health concerns, people fled their home states to get abortions or performed their own.