USA – I Was Forced To Carry A Baby I Knew Would Die — And It Nearly Killed Me, Too

"It was silent in the room when my son was pulled out of me. He couldn’t cry, open his eyes, or move."

By Melissa Schmitt
Nov 27, 2025

On Dec. 18, 2014, in Fargo, North Dakota, I walked drugged and disoriented through a hospital hallway decorated for Christmas. Music played — maybe from a piano, maybe over the PA system. I couldn’t tell. A few hours earlier, my newborn son had passed away less than 30 minutes after I had given birth. Shortly after that, I suffered a severe postpartum hemorrhage and a near-death experience.

Two liters of blood later, there I was, barely alive and walking through a holiday fog, wishing that I wasn’t.

Continued: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/abortion-ban-pateau-syndrome-pregnancy_n_68ed47b5e4b00067de8227a5

27.11.2025

‘I wasn’t allowed to get the healthcare I needed’: the women suing Tennessee for being denied abortions

K Monica Kelly had to travel to Florida for an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with trisomy 13 – now she’s part of a group suing her state

by Carter Sherman
Feb 1, 2024

When K Monica Kelly saw that women in Texas had filed a lawsuit challenging the contours of their state’s abortion ban, she posted on Instagram to cheer them on.

“I shared how terrible I thought it was, that they weren’t able to get the proper healthcare they needed in their state,” Kelly said. “It never crossed my mind that that was actually going to happen to me soon.”

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/01/abortion-ban-tennessee-texas-lawsuits

01.02.2024