What: Mother Jones’ Madison Pauly reminds us of the pregnant women who have died in Texas due to abortion bans, after their state AG arrested a midwife for allegedly performing an abortion. She also covers the New York doctor indicted by Texas, and the state AG’s history with corruption accusations.

Key line: “Experts attribute the increasing danger of being pregnant in Texas to doctors delaying or withholding treatments out of fear of running afoul of the state abortion ban, which only provides a narrow exception to save the life of a patient. It’s unsurprising then that these charges are coming from Paxton, the three-term state attorney general who survived a 16-count impeachment effort in 2023.”

Source: Mother Jones