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A Scripps News Investigation uncovers hundreds of pregnant people being turned away at hospital emergency departments, in violation of federal law.

A Scripps News Investigation uncovers hundreds of pregnant people being turned away at hospital emergency departments, in violation of federal law.

In an era of increasing litigation over state abortion bans since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one ban in Texas so far has avoided a post-Roe legal challenge. Texas’ Heartbeat Act, also known as SB 8, bans abortions performed after a fetal heartbeat can be detected (at around six weeks’ gestation). The law includes a one-of-a-kind enforcement mechanism that shields officials usually tasked with enforcing state law from being sued at all.

CBC News travelled to the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas, which already has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S. While advocates struggle to help pregnant people, anti-abortion lawmakers are looking to close down any remaining paths to abortion access.

Increasing numbers of physicians and families nationwide say a post-Roe fear has come to pass: Pregnant women with dangerous medical conditions are showing up in hospitals and doctors’ offices and being denied the abortions that could help treat them.