Women are dying preventable deaths due to denied or delayed care, and doctors have started avoiding states with bans—restricting health care access for all

by Mina Manchester
February 11th, 2025

I had an ectopic pregnancy in 2014 while on the birth control pill. In an ectopic pregnancy, a fertilized egg develops in the fallopian tube. These pregnancies are never viable, and in every case, the condition is life-threatening to the pregnant person.

When this happened to me 11 years ago, I was 29, newly married, and privileged in many ways: white, educated, housed, and employed with health insurance. I was in rough shape when I was admitted to the hospital via the emergency room, where an ultrasound detected that my right fallopian tube had burst. I’d been bleeding internally for a week and was on the brink of turning septic. I was rushed into emergency surgery, where tissue and my fallopian tube were removed.

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