Hospitals Give Doctors Minimal Guidance Under Abortion Bans, Report Finds

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Sign up to receive <a href="https://www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story?source=www.propublica.org&placement=top-note&region=national">our biggest stories</a> as soon as they’re published.</p> </div> </div> <figure data-pp-id="1" data-pp-blocktype="embed" class="bb-embed size04 right out02 wide-sm wrap hide-print "> <iframe class="lazyload" id="noa-web-audio-player" style="border: none" src="https://embed-player.newsoveraudio.com/v4?key=pp03n4&id=https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-ban-deaths-report-ron-wyden&bgColor=2B3136&color=04AEE0&playColor=04AEE0&progressBgColor=E0E0E2&progressBorderColor=2B3136&titleColor=E0E0E2&timeColor=E0E0E2&speedColor=E0E0E2&noaLinkColor=E0E0E2&noaLinkHighlightColor=04AEE0" width="100%" height="110px"></iframe> <figcaption class="attribution"> </figcaption> </figure> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="2.0">As doctors navigate risks of criminal prosecution in states with abortion bans, hospital leaders and lawyers have left them to fend for themselves with minimal guidance and, at times, have remained “conspicuously and deliberately silent,” according to a <a href="https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25463495-senate-committee-report-on-emergency-reproductive-health-care-post-dobbs">29-page report released Thursday</a> by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden. The poor direction is leading to delays in emergency care for patients facing pregnancy complications, the report concluded.</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="3.0">The Oregon Democrat <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/amber-thurman-georgia-abortion-wyden-emtala">launched a probe in September</a> in response to ProPublica’s <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death">reporting on preventable maternal deaths</a> in states with abortion bans. Wyden <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25169612-piedmont-henry-hosptial-emtala-letter/">requested documentation</a> from eight hospitals to see whether they were complying with a federal law that requires them to stabilize or transfer emergency patients; his committee has authority over the regulatory agency that enforces the law. The report also draws on roundtable discussions with doctors from states with abortion restrictions.</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="5.0">The resulting committee staff report provides a new layer of insight into the chaotic and dysfunctional hospital landscape in states with abortion bans, as well as a fresh opportunity for hospitals to consider reforms and provide proactive and transparent guidance to patients and doctors.</p> <aside class="bb-ad full | hide-print"> <div class="htlad-inline-2"></div> </aside> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="7.0">Physicians, whose accounts were anonymized, described hospital lawyers who “refused to meet” with them for months, were "pretty much impossible" to reach during "life or death" scenarios and offered little help beyond “regurgitating” the law, according to the report. Doctors described how other doctors gave out wrong and potentially harmful information, saying that patients could not legally choose their own course of treatment and that doctors could not legally treat ectopic pregnancies, potentially fatal complications in which an embryo develops outside the uterine cavity.</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="8.0">“Doctors are playing lawyer, and lawyers are playing doctor,” Wyden said in an interview. As a result, “women are getting hurt, they’re suffering, they can die, and we want to deliver this wake-up call so that they’re better protected and they understand what their rights are.”</p> <figure data-pp-id="9" data-pp-blocktype="intro-module" class="bb-intro-module size03 out03 wrap right bb-intro-module--on-article-page wide-md "> <h4> What We’re Watching </h4> <div class="bb-intro-module__dek"> <p>During Donald Trump’s second presidency, ProPublica will focus on the areas most in need of scrutiny. 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Sign up to be a member of our <a href="https://www.propublica.org/tips/federal-workers/">federal worker source network</a> to stay in touch.</p> </div> </div> </div> <nav class="bb-intro-module__nav"> <a href="#" class="bb_intro-module__nav--current"><span></span> </a> <a href="#"><span></span> </a> <a href="#"><span></span> </a> <a href="#"><span></span> </a> <a href="#"><span></span> </a> <a href="#"><span></span> </a> </nav> <p class="bb-intro-module__survey">We’re trying something new. <a href="https://iteratehq.com/propublica/670eabefffb484af7dc7db86">Was it helpful?</a></p> </figure> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="10.0">The Biden administration has told hospital officials that they have a responsibility under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, to stabilize any patients who show up to their emergency rooms, even if that means doing so with an abortion procedure that conflicts with state abortion law. If they can’t, according to the administration’s guidance, they must transfer the patient to a hospital that can. Some states have fought this. In Texas, a court <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/us/texas-emergency-abortion-ban-appeal.html">ruled</a> that the administration’s guidance can’t supersede the state abortion ban and the Supreme Court turned down an appeal.</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="12.0">Information on how to handle the legal conflicts between the bans and federal law is usually not written down at hospitals and, in some cases, is only provided on a “need-to-know” basis, the investigation found. Nurses not included on the same emails as doctors did not trust that they could treat patients, according to an Idaho physician, who added that doctors are left on their own to “figure out the second or third best option.” An emergency medicine doctor who once worked in Texas said they’d encountered OB-GYNs who were too afraid to help deliver care. Another said that colleagues “just want to get these patients out of the hospital” because they worried about the professional and personal risks of treating them.</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="13.0">The report described each of the <a href="https://www.propublica.org/series/life-of-the-mother">five preventable deaths ProPublica reported</a> as examples of the fatal consequences of abortion bans. It also added to the mounting accounts of patients in crisis being denied care. Physicians shared examples such as:</p> <ul> <li>A patient in Idaho whose placenta had “sheared off” the side of the uterus, leading to a massive hemorrhage; the bleeding patient was sent home from the emergency room four or five times. Only at the moment they were “going to bleed out” did the hospital believe they were legally allowed to stabilize the patient, the doctor said.</li> <li>Another Idaho patient who was 19 weeks pregnant and cramping and spotting but was sent home at the direction of maternal-fetal medicine specialists until she could “be brought into an emergency situation.”</li> <li>A patient whose water broke at 21 weeks and whose fetus wasn’t viable. Doctors refused to remove the fetus until the heartbeat stopped, first sending her home and then, upon her return, requiring her to wait over six hours before they agreed to induce labor. ProPublica wrote about a similar case in Texas in which a <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban">woman died of a fatal infection</a> after being made to wait for 40 hours for the fetal heartbeat to stop.</li> </ul> </p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="15.0">Wyden was able to obtain documentation and answers from hospitals that are rarely provided to the public. In December, ProPublica requested miscarriage treatment protocols from the 50 hospitals in Texas that account for roughly half of the births in the state, according to state hospital discharge data. Almost all declined to provide them. Researchers who attempted a similar survey in Oklahoma last year were met with comparable resistance after they tried to get hospitals to share their policies for treating pregnancy complications under the state’s ban, according to a <a href="https://phr.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Oklahoma-Abortion-Ban-Report-2023.pdf">study by Physicians for Human Rights</a>.</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="16.0">The senator requested documentation from eight hospitals across the country that had been the subject of reports of delayed or denied emergency care for pregnancy complications. He asked for their “policies, processes and procedures related to state abortion laws and emergency reproductive health care.” All eight responded, sharing hundreds of pages of <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25465300-combined-emails/">documentation and answers, which the committee published along with the report</a>. The documents provide a rare, detailed view into the operations of private medical systems that may give <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-doctor-decisions-hospital-committee">doctors and ethics committees at hospitals</a> new insight into what others are doing to respond to the laws.</p> <aside class="bb-ad full | hide-print"> <div class="htlad-inline-2"></div> </aside> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="18.0">The response revealed that many of the hospitals were relying on guidance created before the existence of abortion bans, the report said. In most cases, physicians were given basic EMTALA guidance that didn’t discuss how to handle new abortion restrictions and were told to contact legal or ethics counsel for questions. Only a few hospitals had created proactive guidance to help their providers navigate the new landscape, and only two of those explicitly discussed conflicts that exist between abortion bans and EMTALA and how to handle them. It was not always clear if these directives were created before media reports of denied care.</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="19.0">Freeman Health System in Missouri was <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/two-hospitals-denied-abortion-miscarrying-patient-breaking-federal-law">found by federal investigators to have violated</a> EMTALA after doctors told a patient whose water broke nearly 18 weeks into her pregnancy that they could not induce labor because of the state’s new abortion law. It submitted robust protocols to the committee that include a flowchart of its intake for pregnant patients and informed consent paperwork advising patients of high-risk pregnancy complications that constitute an “emergency medical condition” under EMTALA. The Missouri hospital system was the only one out of the eight that said it offered full civil and criminal defense of any providers sued under state abortion laws, according to the report.</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="20.0">Also surveyed was the Georgia hospital system that treated <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death">Amber Thurman</a>, a 28-year-old single mother who faced a deadly infection from a rare complication after taking abortion medication. Doctors at Piedmont Henry Hospital discussed, but did not provide, a procedure to clear her uterus in time, according to a report by the state maternal mortality review committee, which concluded that her death was preventable.</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="21.0">Piedmont told Wyden it had assembled a task force after the state’s abortion ban went into effect. The hospital said it gave providers educational material on conflicts the abortion ban could create, including a “decision tree,” a statement from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on navigating exceptions to abortion bans and guidance for complying with the law’s documentation requirements. (ProPublica reported in September that the task force provided education in the months after Thurman’s death.)</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="22.0">Piedmont, Freeman and five of the other hospitals mentioned in the report did not respond to requests for comment. Dr. R. Cliff Moore, the chief medical officer and maternal-fetal medicine physician for Woman’s Hospital in Louisiana, said that when an early pregnancy-loss diagnosis is unclear, physicians “wait for additional information as long as the patient is stable.”</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="23.0">“The policies, evaluation, treatment and care for early pregnancy loss at Woman’s Hospital have not changed,” he said.</p> <aside data-pp-id="24" data-pp-blocktype="promo" data-pp-location="story promo" dir="ltr" class="bb-promo-story story-promo-group size04 right out02 wide-sm wrap | hide-print" > <div class="story-promo-group__logo user-level--0__show user-level--1__show"> <svg role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 574.24 75" fill="currentColor"> <title>ProPublica</title> <path 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reestablished across America and for the federal government to enforce EMTALA “to the fullest extent of the law.”</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="25.1">But with Republicans in control of all branches of government next session, Wyden recognizes this is an unlikely scenario.</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="26.0">“It is all the more important that hospitals and provider groups step up and do all that they can to make sure patients get the health care they need,” he said. “That means making it crystal clear that patients have a federal legal right to emergency care, no matter where they live, and shouldn’t have to be on the brink of death to get it.”</p> <p data-pp-blocktype="copy" data-pp-id="27.0">The report issued four recommendations:</p> <ul> <li>It called on hospitals and hospital associations to work together to provide training, guidance and resources to doctors to ensure they provide emergency pregnancy care in abortion ban states.</li> <li>It said 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href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/missouri-pregnancy-resource-centers-anti-abortion-tax-credit-bill\">\n A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__dek\" >\n Four months after Missouri voted to legalize abortion, Republican lawmakers are proposing a 100% tax credit \u2014 capped at $50,000 per year \u2014 for taxpayers who donate to crisis pregnancy centers.\n <\/p>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__byline\">\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-author\">\n by <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/jeremy-kohler\">Jeremy Kohler<\/a>,\n <\/span>\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-dateline\">\n <time class=\"timestamp\" datetime=\"2025-03-05EST05:00\">March 5, 2025, 5 a.m. EST<\/time>\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\n \n \n<div class=\"story-card story-card--standard\">\n \n \n\n \n \n \n <div class=\"lead-art\">\n <a class=\"aspect-3-2\" 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Maternal Mortality Committee After Dismissing All Members Last Year\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__dek\" >\n Before ProPublica\u2019s reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, the names of committee members had been publicly released. Now, Georgia says releasing the identities would be a violation of state law.\n <\/p>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__byline\">\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-author\">\n by <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/amy-yurkanin\">Amy Yurkanin<\/a>,\n <\/span>\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-dateline\">\n <time class=\"timestamp\" datetime=\"2025-03-04EST06:00\">March 4, 2025, 6 a.m. EST<\/time>\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\n \n \n<div class=\"story-card story-card--standard\">\n \n \n\n \n \n \n <div class=\"lead-art\">\n <a class=\"aspect-3-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/thomas-weiner-montana-medical-license-renewed\">\n <img\n alt=\"\"\n src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%273%27%20height%3D%272%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E\"\n srcset=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/LJohns_WeinerStory-37_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.4715&fp-y=0.2163&h=267&q=75&w=400&s=7d81c3dfa9c135aa593292d04c05f693 400w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/LJohns_WeinerStory-37_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.4715&fp-y=0.2163&h=533&q=75&w=800&s=c7de6bbbb612c27075abeaf51aa6852d 800w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/LJohns_WeinerStory-37_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.4715&fp-y=0.2163&h=800&q=75&w=1200&s=4a5372d8eef9690ae189f50b2d057f2f 1200w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/LJohns_WeinerStory-37_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.4715&fp-y=0.2163&h=1067&q=75&w=1600&s=dc9aa84c761db4be5ee0eceb2f967100 1600w\"\n width=\"400\"\n height=\"267\"\n loading=\"lazy\"\n js-autosizes\n \/>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n <div class=\"story-card__description\">\n \n <h3 class=\"story-card__hed\" >\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/thomas-weiner-montana-medical-license-renewed\">\n Montana Renews Accused Cancer Doctor\u2019s License Despite Criminal, Civil Inquiries\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__dek\" >\n Questions about whether oncologist Dr. Thomas Weiner would be permitted to continue practicing medicine intensified after a ProPublica investigation exposed a trail of patient harm tied to his practice.\n <\/p>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__byline\">\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-author\">\n by <span class=\"name\">Mara Silvers<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/montanafreepress.org\/\">Montana Free Press<\/a>, and <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/j-david-mcswane\">J. David McSwane<\/a>, ProPublica,\n <\/span>\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-dateline\">\n <time class=\"timestamp\" datetime=\"2025-02-26EST15:10\">Feb. 26, 2025, 3:10 p.m. EST<\/time>\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\n \n \n<div class=\"story-card story-card--standard\">\n \n \n\n\n \n \n <div class=\"lead-art\">\n <a class=\"aspect-3-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis\">\n <img\n alt=\"\"\n src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%273%27%20height%3D%272%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E\"\n srcset=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/abortion-deaths-discharge-data-promo-FINAL-v2.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=267&q=75&w=400&s=63dbc2ceea4bc7cc87d73d9803bdfd8b 400w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/abortion-deaths-discharge-data-promo-FINAL-v2.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=533&q=75&w=800&s=a1cfdf36c2bbc86b17e70dfa69b2a0a3 800w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/abortion-deaths-discharge-data-promo-FINAL-v2.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=800&q=75&w=1200&s=7c071b14fec0354f0e61eb5184c4fd7b 1200w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/abortion-deaths-discharge-data-promo-FINAL-v2.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=1067&q=75&w=1600&s=a06e9dddca459c8d68a743fd58f4416d 1600w\"\n width=\"400\"\n height=\"267\"\n loading=\"lazy\"\n js-autosizes\n \/>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n <div class=\"story-card__description\">\n <a class=\"story-card__series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/series\/life-of-the-mother\">Life of the Mother<\/a>\n \n <h3 class=\"story-card__hed\" >\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis\">\n Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__dek\" >\n ProPublica\u2019s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas\u2019 abortion ban.\n <\/p>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__byline\">\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-author\">\n by <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/lizzie-presser\">Lizzie Presser<\/a>, <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/andrea-suozzo\">Andrea Suozzo<\/a>, <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/sophie-chou\">Sophie Chou<\/a> and <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/kavitha-surana\">Kavitha Surana<\/a>,\n <\/span>\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-dateline\">\n <time class=\"timestamp\" datetime=\"2025-02-20EST05:00\">Feb. 20, 2025, 5 a.m. EST<\/time>\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\n \n \n<div class=\"story-card story-card--standard\">\n \n \n\n\n \n \n <div class=\"lead-art\">\n <a class=\"aspect-3-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology\">\n <img\n alt=\"\"\n src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%273%27%20height%3D%272%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E\"\n srcset=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20250220-sepsis-all-hospitalizations-promo-3x2.png?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=267&q=80&w=400&s=f469bb8ca959600c47bb540e024a81f0 400w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20250220-sepsis-all-hospitalizations-promo-3x2.png?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=533&q=80&w=800&s=17a2665b3a429c5260261dca5e991686 800w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20250220-sepsis-all-hospitalizations-promo-3x2.png?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=800&q=80&w=1200&s=f9e59c8ad4e763683f370c06c2f57ab9 1200w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20250220-sepsis-all-hospitalizations-promo-3x2.png?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=1067&q=80&w=1600&s=08f09a48859372d0d4c8d3914325b55b 1600w\"\n width=\"400\"\n height=\"267\"\n loading=\"lazy\"\n js-autosizes\n \/>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n <div class=\"story-card__description\">\n <a class=\"story-card__series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/series\/life-of-the-mother\">Life of the Mother<\/a>\n \n <h3 class=\"story-card__hed\" >\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology\">\n Texas Won\u2019t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__dek\" >\n Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here\u2019s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and analyzed the outcomes before and after the ban.\n <\/p>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__byline\">\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-author\">\n by <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/andrea-suozzo\">Andrea Suozzo<\/a>, <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/sophie-chou\">Sophie Chou<\/a> and <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/lizzie-presser\">Lizzie Presser<\/a>,\n <\/span>\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-dateline\">\n <time class=\"timestamp\" datetime=\"2025-02-20EST04:55\">Feb. 20, 2025, 4:55 a.m. EST<\/time>\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\n \n \n<div class=\"story-card story-card--standard\">\n \n \n\n \n \n \n <div class=\"lead-art\">\n <a class=\"aspect-3-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-to-coverage-hurdles\">\n <img\n alt=\"\"\n src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%273%27%20height%3D%272%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E\"\n srcset=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20250218-Bellet-Pathways-3x2_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=267&q=75&w=400&s=54b68f57094a365795f9f80069b462d5 400w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20250218-Bellet-Pathways-3x2_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=533&q=75&w=800&s=b2f3c35cb4c7580c42e666677e60bb75 800w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20250218-Bellet-Pathways-3x2_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=800&q=75&w=1200&s=fe56111d35ab05005d97e5622c78f49c 1200w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20250218-Bellet-Pathways-3x2_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=1067&q=75&w=1600&s=5130e799f6a96ca1c47065c1c0a5e819 1600w\"\n width=\"400\"\n height=\"267\"\n loading=\"lazy\"\n js-autosizes\n \/>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n <div class=\"story-card__description\">\n \n <h3 class=\"story-card__hed\" >\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-to-coverage-hurdles\">\n Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__dek\" >\n Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million \u2014 a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency.\n <\/p>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__byline\">\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-author\">\n by <a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrentga.org\/author\/margaret-coker-2\/\">Margaret Coker<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thecurrentga.org\">The Current<\/a>,\n <\/span>\n <span class=\"story-card__byline-dateline\">\n <time class=\"timestamp\" datetime=\"2025-02-19EST06:00\">Feb. 19, 2025, 6 a.m. EST<\/time>\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n\n <p class=\"story-card__unit\">Local Reporting Network<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n", "title": "More in Health Care", "url": "https://www.propublica.org/topics/health-care" }, "contextArray": [] } </script> <div class="article-page-section-recirc | hide-print svelte-hrgjoc" data-pp-location="recirc more in band"><div class="article-page-section-recirc__content svelte-hrgjoc"> <div class="page-section svelte-8uolrw"><strong class="page-section__heading svelte-8uolrw"><a href="https://www.propublica.org/topics/health-care" class="link-style--no-decoration link-style--hover-underline svelte-8uolrw">More in Health Care</a> <div class="icon svelte-8uolrw"><svg role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><title>Caret</title><path clip-rule="evenodd" d="m9.5858 8.00008-5.29289-5.2929 1.41421-1.41421 6.70708 6.70711-6.70708 6.70712-1.41421-1.4142z" fill="currentColor" fill-rule="evenodd"></path></svg></div></strong> <div class="page-section__container page-section__container--full-below-xl svelte-8uolrw page-section__container--scroll-snap stack stack--row stack--spacing-gutter"> <div class="story-card story-card--standard"> <div class="lead-art"> <a class="aspect-3-2" href="https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-pregnancy-resource-centers-anti-abortion-tax-credit-bill"> <img alt="" src="data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%273%27%20height%3D%272%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E" srcset="https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/MO-Abortion-SB681-v2_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=267&q=75&w=400&s=04698f4436ecdb36c69f7be1236d8847 400w, https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/MO-Abortion-SB681-v2_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=533&q=75&w=800&s=69ce7846eae881790981e5fd4952dd9f 800w, https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/MO-Abortion-SB681-v2_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=800&q=75&w=1200&s=818d9bf6e4fe74e4d375964259ef0727 1200w, https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/MO-Abortion-SB681-v2_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=1067&q=75&w=1600&s=fcec0e7990ea5107e4de5c196a0ca578 1600w" width="400" height="267" loading="lazy" js-autosizes /> </a> </div> <div class="story-card__description"> <h3 class="story-card__hed" > <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-pregnancy-resource-centers-anti-abortion-tax-credit-bill"> A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes </a> </h3> <p class="story-card__dek" > Four months after Missouri voted to legalize abortion, Republican lawmakers are proposing a 100% tax credit — capped at $50,000 per year — for taxpayers who donate to crisis pregnancy centers. </p> <p class="story-card__byline"> <span class="story-card__byline-author"> by <a class="name" href="https://www.propublica.org/people/jeremy-kohler">Jeremy Kohler</a>, </span> <span class="story-card__byline-dateline"> <time class="timestamp" datetime="2025-03-05EST05:00">March 5, 2025, 5 a.m. EST</time> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="story-card story-card--standard"> <div class="lead-art"> <a class="aspect-3-2" href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-maternal-mortality-committee-members-names-not-released"> <img alt="" src="data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%273%27%20height%3D%272%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E" srcset="https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/GettyImages-1240668906_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.716&fp-y=0.2197&h=267&q=75&w=400&s=b887f30b5c76fffa5147cb8f9d8f82bd 400w, https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/GettyImages-1240668906_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.716&fp-y=0.2197&h=533&q=75&w=800&s=8e264843d973de2277ea0e72dc3d56a4 800w, https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/GettyImages-1240668906_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.716&fp-y=0.2197&h=800&q=75&w=1200&s=7ee9d7856e8d03f906f3bf896a16fd3b 1200w, https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/GettyImages-1240668906_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.716&fp-y=0.2197&h=1067&q=75&w=1600&s=57fc129656235551fc35fde96e3a65cf 1600w" width="400" height="267" loading="lazy" js-autosizes /> </a> </div> <div class="story-card__description"> <a class="story-card__series" href="https://www.propublica.org/series/life-of-the-mother">Life of the Mother</a> <h3 class="story-card__hed" > <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-maternal-mortality-committee-members-names-not-released"> Georgia Won’t Say Who’s Now Serving on Its Maternal Mortality Committee After Dismissing All Members Last Year </a> </h3> <p class="story-card__dek" > Before ProPublica’s reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, the names of committee members had been publicly released. Now, Georgia says releasing the identities would be a violation of state law. </p> <p class="story-card__byline"> <span class="story-card__byline-author"> by <a class="name" href="https://www.propublica.org/people/amy-yurkanin">Amy Yurkanin</a>, </span> <span class="story-card__byline-dateline"> <time class="timestamp" datetime="2025-03-04EST06:00">March 4, 2025, 6 a.m. EST</time> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="story-card story-card--standard"> <div class="lead-art"> <a class="aspect-3-2" href="https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-medical-license-renewed"> <img alt="" src="data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%273%27%20height%3D%272%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E" srcset="https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/LJohns_WeinerStory-37_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.4715&fp-y=0.2163&h=267&q=75&w=400&s=7d81c3dfa9c135aa593292d04c05f693 400w, https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/LJohns_WeinerStory-37_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.4715&fp-y=0.2163&h=533&q=75&w=800&s=c7de6bbbb612c27075abeaf51aa6852d 800w, https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/LJohns_WeinerStory-37_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.4715&fp-y=0.2163&h=800&q=75&w=1200&s=4a5372d8eef9690ae189f50b2d057f2f 1200w, https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/LJohns_WeinerStory-37_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.4715&fp-y=0.2163&h=1067&q=75&w=1600&s=dc9aa84c761db4be5ee0eceb2f967100 1600w" width="400" height="267" loading="lazy" js-autosizes /> </a> </div> <div class="story-card__description"> <h3 class="story-card__hed" > <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-medical-license-renewed"> Montana Renews Accused Cancer Doctor’s License Despite Criminal, Civil Inquiries </a> </h3> <p class="story-card__dek" > Questions about whether oncologist Dr. Thomas Weiner would be permitted to continue practicing medicine intensified after a ProPublica investigation exposed a trail of patient harm tied to his practice. </p> <p class="story-card__byline"> <span class="story-card__byline-author"> by <span class="name">Mara Silvers</span>, <a href="https://montanafreepress.org/">Montana Free Press</a>, and <a class="name" href="https://www.propublica.org/people/j-david-mcswane">J. 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