Today, a story about the uncharted legal territory of a new abortion law, and the consequences for families and doctors who end up in the middle.
Deborah Dorbert looks at a 12-week scan - made well before she found out there were lethal anomalies with her pregnancy. (Photo by Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post)Nobody expected Baby Milo to live a long time. The unusual complications in his mother’s pregnancy tested the interpretation of Florida’s new abortion law.
Earlier this year, Washington Post reporter Frances Stead Sellers shared the story of Deborah Dorbert, a woman who was carrying a pregnancy to term after being denied an abortion, despite the fetus having a rare fatal condition. Florida’s abortion ban includes an exception for fatal fetal abnormalities, but her doctors told her they could not act as long as the baby’s heart was beating.
While that story went viral around the world, Debbie continued to do the best she could to prepare for delivering a child that wouldn’t survive even a few hours.
Debbie and her husband Lee named their baby Milo. He lived for 99 minutes.
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Today, a story about the uncharted legal territory of a new abortion law, and the consequences for families and doctors who end up in the middle.
Deborah Dorbert looks at a 12-week scan - made well before she found out there were lethal anomalies with her pregnancy. (Photo by Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post)Nobody expected Baby Milo to live a long time. The unusual complications in his mother’s pregnancy tested the interpretation of Florida’s new abortion law.
Earlier this year, Washington Post reporter Frances Stead Sellers shared the story of Deborah Dorbert, a woman who was carrying a pregnancy to term after being denied an abortion, despite the fetus having a rare fatal condition. Florida’s abortion ban includes an exception for fatal fetal abnormalities, but her doctors told her they could not act as long as the baby’s heart was beating.
While that story went viral around the world, Debbie continued to do the best she could to prepare for delivering a child that wouldn’t survive even a few hours.
Debbie and her husband Lee named their baby Milo. He lived for 99 minutes.
A Title 42 border policy has expired. The public health measure allowed the U.S. to turn away many migrants and asylum seekers at the border because of the pandemic. But what does the end of the policy mean for migrants now?
The PTSD diagnosis came as a surprise for Bill Gates, an election official in Arizona’s Maricopa County. But ever since 2020, Gates has struggled with the trauma of the presidential election and the threats he endured, as well as the loneliness he felt as a Republican willing to say Donald Trump lost.
