Georgia's "heartbeat law" ​is among the restrictive abortion statutes that have been put in place in many conservative states.

Every day that goes by, it’s more cost, more trauma, more questions,” Adriana Smith's mother told a local NBC News affiliate.

According to a first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis of state hospital discharge data, while the rates of dangerous infections spiked across Texas after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston were far more likely to get gravely ill than those in Dallas.