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In today’s newsletter: Soaring sepsis rates <[link removed]> after Texas’ abortion ban — and how we analyzed the data <[link removed]>; who’s being held at Guantanamo <[link removed]>; plus more from our newsroom.

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. <[link removed]>

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did <[link removed]>

A chart illustrates how sepsis rates for women hospitalized during second trimester pregnancy loss spiked after Texas’ abortion ban <[link removed]>
Sepsis rates for women hospitalized during second trimester pregnancy loss spiked after Texas’ abortion ban. Credit:Lucas Waldron/ProPublica

Last year, as part of our “Life of the Mother” <[link removed]> series looking at the consequences of abortion bans, ProPublica reported on two Texas women who hoped to carry their pregnancies to term, suffered miscarriages and died after delayed care.

Forced to wait 40 hours as her dying fetus pressed against her cervix, Josseli Barnica risked a dangerous infection <[link removed]>. Doctors didn’t induce labor until her fetus no longer had a heartbeat.

Physicians waited, too, as Nevaeh Crain’s organs failed <[link removed]>. Before rushing the pregnant teenager to the operating room, they ran an extra test to confirm her fetus had expired.

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and analyzed the outcomes before and after the ban.

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