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'We can't go back': US congresswoman shares stillbirth story pre Roe v Wade

Guardian, 14 Jan 2023
As Republicans push for anti-abortion measures, a Florida congresswoman shared her experience with the House of Representatives of being forced to carry a dead baby decades earlier. Frederica Wilson, 80, said she was finally ready to tell her story publicly, having previously not wanted to 'relive the most painful time in my entire life'. Wilson said her baby was pronounced dead seven months into her pregnancy in the late 1960s. Doctors were prohibited from inducing labor as her pregnancy predated Roe v Wade and the legalisation of abortion nationwide – a decision dismantled by the conservative-controlled court last June

Congresswoman shares story of stillborn son with US House
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