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Dr Ingrid Skop has argued in favor of forcing rape and incest victims as young as nine or 10 to carry pregnancies to term
One of the US’s leading anti-abortion activists has been appointed to a Texas health committee tasked with reviewing maternal deaths.
The move worries reproductive justice advocates who say the state’s abortion ban – among the strictest in the US – has placed pregnant women’s lives in jeopardy. The appointment could undermine the committee’s ability to accurately examine the impact of the law on deaths during and in the immediate aftermath of pregnancy, they say.
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