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Texas OB-GYNs urge lawmakers to change abortion laws after reports on pregnant women's deaths

A group of 111 OB-GYNs in Texas released a letter to elected state leaders Sunday urging them to change abortion laws they say have prevented them from providing lifesaving care to pregnant women.The doctors pointed to recent reporting by ProPublica on two Texas pregnant women who died after medical staff delayed emergency care.Josseli Barnica, 28, died of an infection in 2021 three days after she began to miscarry. More than a dozen medical experts said Barnica’s death was preventable. However, the state’s abortion laws kept doctors from intervening until they couldn’t detect a fetal heartbeat, which didn’t happen until about ...

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