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How abortion bans complicated one woman's problematic pregnancy

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Carrie Feibel, NPR

July 26, 2022

An operating room technician performs an ultrasound on a patient at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., on July 6, 2022. (Ted Jackson/AP)

Abortion bans restrict care for difficult pregnancies. When one woman in Houston had a premature rupture of membranes, she had to wait until the fetal heartbeat stopped before she could get help.

NPR's Carrie Feibel reports.

This segment aired on July 26, 2022.

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