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Search results for "Porsha Ngumezi died at a Texas hospital after bleeding heavily during a miscarriage"

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Jodie Laubenberg stated on June 23, 2013 in Texas House debate on Senate Bill 5.:
Says a "rape kit" can be used to "clean out" women, "basically like" dilation and curettage.
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby• June 24, 2013
Instagram posts stated on May 31, 2023 in an Instagram post:
"The European Union is now warning pregnant women not to get the COVID-19 vaccine due to the possibility of infertility and miscarriage.”
By Jeff Cercone• June 1, 2023
Facebook posts stated on June 21, 2021 in social media posts:
“Airlines begin to ban vaccinated people after Pilots die due to vaccine”
By Kelsey Sena Tamakloe• June 28, 2021
Instagram posts stated on May 18, 2023 in a post:
Says a report shows that “Ventilators Killed Nearly ALL COVID Patients”
By Gabrielle Settles• May 23, 2023
Facebook posts stated on April 15, 2021 in Instagram post:
Women’s menstrual cycles and fertility are affected by being around people who have received COVID-19 vaccines
By Michael Majchrowicz• April 21, 2021
Mary González stated on May 11, 2017 in House debate of House Bill 2962:
An "abortion procedure is actually safer than a vasectomy."
By W. Gardner Selby• May 17, 2017
Bloggers stated on November 01, 2021 in a blog post:
"Report finds increased risk of spontaneous abortion following COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy” after correcting “major error” in CDC study.
By Vivian Lam• November 12, 2021
Instagram posts stated on April 23, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Brain aneurysms are a “serious and common COVID-19 mRNA vaccine injury in young people.”
By Loreben Tuquero• April 25, 2023
Kari Lake stated on October 09, 2022 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation:
“Katie Hobbs voted for allowing a baby who survives an abortion — that the hospital would refuse medical care and allow the baby to die on a cold metal tray.”
By Jon Greenberg• October 12, 2022
Eddie Lucio, Jr. stated on February 17, 2011 in remarks on the Senate floor:
"A miscarriage is considered an abortion."
By Ciara O'Rourke• March 1, 2011
Bill Zedler stated on April 25, 2017 in his responses to a physician testifying before the Texas House Committee on Public Health:
Says a federal program that collects reported side-effects of vaccinations doesn’t accept possible outcomes extending to road accidents, heart attacks or suicides.
By W. Gardner Selby• May 11, 2017
Sheila Jackson Lee stated on December 18, 2015 in remarks inserted into the Congressional Record:
"Between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate for women in the U.S. has increased by 136%."
By Fauzeya Rahman• February 1, 2016
Trent Franks stated on April 14, 2016 in a legislative hearing:
"Today in America, between 40 and 50 percent of all African-American babies, virtually 1-in-2, are killed before they are born."
By Anthony Cave• April 26, 2016
Alliance Defending Freedom stated on March 27, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Abortion pills are dangerous and “1 in 5 women will suffer a complication.”
By Samantha Putterman• April 13, 2023
Donna Howard stated on April 16, 2019 in the Texas House:
"There have been zero reported instances of any child born alive after an abortion in Texas."
By Madlin Mekelburg• April 18, 2019
Bloggers stated on November 30, 2021 in an article:
At Lions Gate Hospital in Vancouver, “13 babies were reportedly stillborn at the hospital in a period of 24 hours. All of their mothers had received a COVID-19 injection.”
By Monique Curet• December 13, 2021
Dan Flynn stated on September 13, 2016 in a letter to state health officials:
"Not one illness has been reported from raw milk in" Texas "in more than four years. A total of six illnesses have occurred in the last 20 years."
By W. Gardner Selby• September 29, 2016
David Dewhurst stated on June 09, 2012 in a speech to the Republican Party of Texas convention in Fort Worth.:
Says he "passed" eight measures, including ones to prevent groping at airport security checks and to bar "sanctuary" cities in Texas.  
By Tara Merrigan• July 3, 2012
Chain email stated on September 04, 2013 in a chain email:
An account of attacks in Benghazi written by former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers shows that the body of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was "dragged through the streets" and abused.
By Louis Jacobson• September 6, 2013
Texas Right to Life stated on May 14, 2014 in a video ad:
In Texas, "a faceless hospital panel can deny life-sustaining care, giving you only 10 days to find another facility for your mother, dad, or young child, even if the patient is conscious."
By W. Gardner Selby• May 30, 2014

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COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy: Why scientists and doctors say it's safe

By Bill McCarthy• August 16, 2021

Doctors ‘strongly discourage’ using herbs to induce a miscarriage

By Jeff Cercone, Madison Czopek• July 6, 2022

Facts on the vitamin K shot for newborns

By Grace Abels• March 24, 2026

How treatment of ectopic pregnancy fits into post-Roe medical care

By Nuria Diaz Muñoz, Maria Ramirez Uribe• June 30, 2022

'Died Suddenly' repeats debunked COVID-19 vaccine claims, promotes conspiracy theory

By Madison Czopek• November 29, 2022

Five things to know now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade

By Victoria Knight, Rachana Pradhan, Julie Rovner• June 27, 2022

10 types of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation swirling online, fact-checked

By Bill McCarthy• July 26, 2021

The top claims about abortion, fact-checked

By Samantha Putterman• March 2, 2023

Untangling Ron DeSantis’ debate anecdote about an improbable abortion survival story

By Samantha Putterman• August 24, 2023

Facts debatable? Truth-O-Meter says no

By W. Gardner Selby• March 10, 2011

Mailbag: “What a complete waste of newsprint.”

By • March 25, 2011

End of COVID-19 emergency will usher in health system changes

By Rachana Pradhan• March 23, 2023

All abortion bans include exceptions for a mother’s life. But are they working?

By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa, Samantha Putterman• June 23, 2023

Sen. Ted Cruz targets PolitiFact; here's our response

By Angie Drobnic Holan• September 16, 2019

‘Medicare for All' emerges as early divide in first Democratic presidential primary debate

By Jon Greenberg, Shefali Luthra• June 27, 2019

Were the early 1960s a golden age for health care?

By Louis Jacobson• January 20, 2012

Were migrant children who died very sick before taken into U.S. custody, as Trump claimed?

By Miriam Valverde• January 3, 2019

Are COVID-19 vaccines safe for pregnant women? Here’s what we know, and don’t know

By Samantha Putterman• February 19, 2021

Democrats pound Rick Perry

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• June 28, 2010

Fact-checking three coronavirus claims from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

By Madlin Mekelburg• June 19, 2020