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Doctors Warned Her Pregnancy Could Kill Her. Then Tennessee Outlawed Abortion.

· By Kavitha Surana and Stacy Kranitz
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One day late last summer, Dr. Barry Grimm called a fellow obstetrician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to consult about a patient who was 10 weeks pregnant. Her embryo had become implanted in scar tissue from a recent cesarean section, and she was in serious danger. At any moment, the pregnancy could rupture…

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