One year ago, a Texas woman was killed by her partner—who had a prior record of domestic violence—for getting an abortion. Before that, in the summer of 2022, a Missouri man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife in 2019; before she went missing, she’d searched on her cell phone, “What to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant.” Homicide, often by an intimate partner, is the leading cause of death for pregnant people, and abusive situations are likely to escalate when... Read this story
