On today’s show: A woman in Texas died after being told by the hospital that it would be a “crime” to intervene in her miscarriage. ProPublica has her story. No matter who wins the presidency, they will be leading a divided America. The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser and New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker explain why on this week’s episode of Apple News In Conversation. The Arizona Republic’s Sasha Hupka takes us inside Arizona’s remarkable election. Plus, NBC News explains why Young Thug changed his plea to guilty in Georgia’s longest-running criminal trial. USA Today explains how Halloween helped change daylight saving time. And The Athletic looks at how “shoe doping” changed marathon times forever — in ways we still don’t fully understand. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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This is Apple News Today. On today's show, how America's divisions will remain and transform after Election Day. Election officials in Arizona are preparing for national attention and legal battles. And why daylight saving time comes after Halloween. But first, one of the biggest issues this election is reproductive rights and abortion access.
And increasingly, we are hearing more stories about the dangers women face when they don't get the care they need in time. Over the past few months, ProPublica has been telling some of these stories. This week, we learned about a woman in Texas, Joseli Bornica. She was pregnant with her second child in 2021.
This was before Roe v. Wade was overturned, but that year Texas banned abortions after six weeks. Joseli began to miscarry at 17 weeks, but the hospital wouldn't intervene because of the new state law.
She goes to the hospital hoping to get the help that she desperately needed and was made to wait 40 hours before she ended up spontaneously miscarrying her child.
That's Cassandra Jaramillo, who reported this story for ProPublica.
And what her husband shared with us that he learned from her was that when she first shows up to the hospital, they tell her that there's nothing that they can do, that it would be illegal to intervene because her fetus, although she was going to lose that pregnancy, still had a heartbeat.
Three days later, Joseli died of an infection.
This woman wanted her pregnancy. She did not want an abortion. However, the abortion ban in Texas is written in such a way that puts miscarriages in a gray area.
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