Texas women facing pregnancy complications are forced to travel out of state for care

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Texas women facing pregnancy complications are forced to travel out of state for care
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Since Texas implemented its strict abortion laws, many women facing pregnancy complications have been forced to leave the state for care.

Dani Mathisen was living in Texas and married to her high school sweetheart. She was thrilled to learn she was pregnant with a baby girl. But at 20 weeks, a fetal anatomy scan revealed devastating news. Her daughter only had one kidney, her spine was so bent that it put pressure on her heart and her brain was formed incorrectly.

How Texas's abortion laws are driving doctors out of the stateThe case was rejected by the Texas Supreme Court, but after the women filed their suit, Texas legislators quietly passed a new law to include two exceptions to the ban: one for ectopic pregnancies –when a pregnancy occurs outside the uterus– and the other when a woman's water breaks prematurely.

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