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Last year, I led a team of ProPublica journalists as they exposed the deaths of five women who couldn’t get lifesaving care under state abortion bans.
The findings of their series, Life of the Mother, were inescapable amid a presidential election and as voters contemplated state ballot initiatives to expand abortion access; they rippled through court hearings, nationwide protests and proposed legislation, and in at least one state, prompted reforms that now have the momentum to become law. (The series recently won The Batten Medal from the 2025 Poynter Journalism Prizes.)
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