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” 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. Doctors didn’t induce labor until her fetus no longer had a heartbeat.
• Physicians waited, too, as Nevaeh Crain’s organs failed. 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.

“To me it’s the desperation, the frustration that I know nothing of him. It’s a terrible anguish. I don’t sleep.”

— Michel Duran, a Venezuelan whose son, Mayfreed Duran, is being held along with other immigrant detainees at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Trump administration claims the immigrants held at the base are the “worst of the worst,” but government officials have refused to provide details about the crimes that landed them in detention. “All these individuals committed a crime by entering the United States illegally,” a Department of Homeland Security official said in a statement.