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ProPublica's analysis of CDC data shows ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled since 2020, with the sharpest rise in states with strict abortion bans — despite explicit legal exceptions for ectopic care.
Every abortion ban in the United States contains an explicit exception for ectopic pregnancies, yet deaths from ectopic pregnancies have nearly doubled since 2020, with the steepest increases in ban states.
The debate is often framed as a partisan artifact or dismissed as physician overcaution, obscuring the fact that the legal risk structure itself has changed how doctors triage a condition medicine has known how to treat for a century.
Written exceptions do not undo chilling effects. When the penalty for treating too early is a felony and the penalty for treating too late is a quiet settlement, rational physicians treat late — and patients with non-viable pregnancies pay for the asymmetry with their lives.
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