How Texas’ abortion laws turned a heartbreaking fetal diagnosis into a cross-country journey

Photo caption: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Photo credit: Brandon Bell / Getty Images. Article by Eleanor Klibanoff. Salon – September 21, 2022. This article originally appeared on The Texas Tribune.

“It was just a matter of time before the baby died,” said 27-year-old Lauren Hall

The protesters outside the Seattle abortion clinic waved pictures of bloody fetuses, shouting that she was a “baby killer” and begging her to choose life. Lauren Hall, 27, fought the urge to scream back and tell them just how badly she wished life was a choice she could have made. She wanted to tell these strangers about the day she ran into her husband’s home office, pants still around her ankles, waving that positive pregnancy test. How they’d told their families, picked out a name, built a crib and bought pink sheets. […]

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