Lawmakers in at Least Seven States Seek Expanded Abortion Access

Lawmakers are filing more than a dozen bills to expand abortion access in at least seven states.

Some were filed in response to ProPublica ’s reporting on the fatal consequences of such laws.

Multiple women, in multiple states with abortion bans, have died after they couldn’t get lifesaving care.

Texas law forbids state maternal mortality review committee from looking into deaths of patients who received an abortive procedure or medication.

Under these restrictions, the circumstances surrounding two of the Texas deaths ProPublica documented will never be reviewed.

Texas state Sen. José Menéndez filed a bill that lifts the restrictions and directs the state committee to study deaths related to abortion access, including miscarriages.