What: A long piece on the life and death of Yeniifer Alvarez in rural Texas, who died, along with her unborn child, at 30 weeks of pregnancy and after enduring multiple trips to the hospital.

Why it matters: At no point is there a record of Alvarez being offered an abortion due to the risk her prior pulmonary embolism put her in, despite “four outside experts” concluding that “Yeni’s death was preventable; that she’d been discharged prematurely from the Austin hospital; and that a therapeutic abortion, if offered and accepted, would probably have saved her life.”

Source: The New Yorker