The new legislation was prompted by ProPublica’s reporting on Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain, who died after they could not access timely reproductive care in Texas.
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Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Porsha Ngumezi is the third Texas case ProPublica has investigated in which a woman died after her miscarriage went untreated. Weeks after we reported on the deaths of the first two, Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain, Texas lawmakers filed bills that would create exceptions to the state’s strict abortion ban.
Number of Mississippi schools identified by ProPublica that likely opened as “segregation academies” and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program. We also found 39 in North Carolina that have received tens of millions of dollars in voucher money.
