Texas Abortion Ban’s Ripple Effect on Medical Care for Pregnant People
In 2023, a woman walked into a health centre in Houston trailing an IV pole. She was suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum — essentially, an extreme form of morning sickness. The woman was vomiting constantly, could not retain food or fluids, and was being kept alive by being fed through a drip. “She had been to the ER so many times,” family medicine provider and physician Bhavik Kumar told...