Originally published at National Catholic Register
Ahead of America’s election night, when pro-abortion measures were defeated in three states but passed in seven others, a pair of concerning headlines added more fuel to the red-hot abortion debate.
“She said she had a miscarriage — then got arrested under an abortion law,” reads one. Another announces: “A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a ‘Crime’ to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital.”
As the Register reported on Oct. 21, media coverage and pro-abortion campaign ads in recent months have fed a misleading narrative that pro-life laws in states like Georgia and Texas prohibit doctors from providing medical care to women experiencing a miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or other pregnancy-related emergency.
Yet new reports of additional cases that purportedly support these claims keep popping up — most recently in a nearly 6,000-word article in the The Washington Post, detailing the story of a Nevada woman charged with manslaughter, and another report on a Texas case published by ProPublica.
Is there some validity to these reports, or are they being used to present an incomplete picture of what is going on? The Register recently spoke with two medical doctors to better understand the broader context
