Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Nearly Double, Worse in Abortion Ban States

When law and medicine speak different languages, it is often the patient who pays the price. Across the United States, women are dying from ectopic pregnancies — a condition universally recognized as a medical emergency with no path to a viable birth — at nearly twice the rate they were in recent years, with the sharpest losses concentrated in states that have enacted broad abortion restrictions. A ProPublica analysis reveals that policy, however abstractly conceived, carries a very concrete weight: the difference, in some cases, between a woman who lives and one who does not. The data invites