#also recommend (in the same vein) https://www.thisamericanlife.org/792/when-to-leave/act-one-6

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But, after S.B. 8, one ob-gyn who treats patients at Parkland and Clements Hospital in Dallas, Anjali Nambiar, embarked on a study of her own, focussed on morbidity. She wanted to know how women who had pre-viability ruptured membranes, severe preeclampsia, or vaginal bleeding had been treated since the passage of S.B. 8 and another state law, about to take effect, that would make it a state felony to administer abortion medications after seven weeks.

The results of that research, published last fall in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, focussed on twenty-eight patients whose course of treatment had to be changed to stay compliant with the laws’ provisions. Nambiar and her co-authors found that, compared with similar research done in states without such legislation, maternal morbidity had increased as a result. Twelve of the women experienced complications that included infections and hemorrhages; nine of them had ended up in the I.C.U., undergone dilatation and curettage, or been readmitted into the hospital after being discharged; and one had required a hysterectomy. Of the twenty-eight case studies, among the fetuses or babies, there was only a single survivor. That baby, the ob-gyn at Parkland said, remained hospitalized for months.