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At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
Abortion clinics rushed to provide care after a judge rejected the state’s ban, an order that could soon be paused by a higher court. It’s only the latest development since ProPublica reported ...
A Georgia committee of experts in maternal health recently deemed Candi Miller’s death “preventable,” ProPublica has learned. The group, which includes 10 doctors, directly blamed the state ...
The Georgia hospital that failed to save Amber Thurman may have broken a federal law when doctors there waited 20 hours to perform a procedure criminalized by the state’s abortion ban, according ...
ProPublica recently found that the names of committee members in 18 states with abortion restrictions were publicly available, or accessible through a public records request.
ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for its “Life of the Mother” series, which erroneously implied that a Georgia woman who died after taking an abortion pill died ...
If a fetus is not viable, typically at around 22-24 weeks of pregnancy, Georgia law allows medical professionals to remove life support. However, if a fetus is viable, Georgia law overrides the ...
Over the weekend, 30-year-old Adriana Smith was finally laid to rest after months on life support. Family and friends ...
The funeral for the Georgia woman who was brain-dead but kept alive by ventilators because of the state's abortion law was ...
ProPublica reporters Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, and Cassandra Jaramillo mined hospital and death records in abortion-banned states, used crowdsourcing tips, and interviewed health workers and ...
During a Senate hearing earlier this week women shared personal experiences navigating Georgia's abortion ban after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The award, for exposing the fatal consequences of abortion bans, marks ProPublica’s 8th Pulitzer; investigation into mental health care access is named a Pulitzer finalist.