In 2023, ProPublica reported how Mayron Hollis faced a life-threatening pregnancy under Tennessee’s abortion ban. A photographer and reporter then continued to follow the family for a year. This is their story. (Published Feb. 2024) - ThreadSky

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In 2023, ProPublica reported how Mayron Hollis faced a life-threatening pregnancy under Tennessee’s abortion ban. A photographer and reporter then continued to follow the family for a year.

This is their story.
(Published Feb. 2024)

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arleenpeterson.bsky.social•154 days ago

Great story, heartbreaking 💔 Despite their personal choices, the next couple of years and laws will affect this family, it’s scary!

nhgardener.bsky.social•153 days ago

A major point of this cruelty is to force women to have more babies. If they end up being adopted, that is also part of the plan.

6catmom.bsky.social•154 days ago

Those kids are screwed, it’s a vicious cycle of neglect and addiction.
How does any of this lead to a better society and make American great again?

libshell.bsky.social•154 days ago

Eye-opening and heart-rending.

mmgarrett.bsky.social•154 days ago

Heartbreaking. Seems like there were opportunities for help, but with no idea how to access them they went untapped. Total failure of the state to provide the necessary resources to navigate the system and apparently no one cared enough to step in to help. Pro-life my ass.

internalorgan.bsky.social•154 days ago

Add to that, if you make a mistake, you get penalized with fees. Enough people are too scared to try and that's the intention.

garrettw.net•154 days ago

📌 to read later

sonnychatrath.com•154 days ago

This story is heartbreaking.

jenniferr8.bsky.social•154 days ago

Truly heartbreaking

bobclough.bsky.social•154 days ago

First class reporting on a world-class disaster of failed family support policies. I can’t imagine working thru the spaghetti of programs available. Cruel at every level.

debthacker88.bsky.social•154 days ago

Cruelty

scorpiomoonrising.bsky.social•154 days ago

What’s crazy is people will ignore how much harder this pregnancy made everything to judge them based on their history with addiction. My heart aches for this family.

honeymoonphase.bsky.social•154 days ago

This is so sad, my goodness.

860jen.bsky.social•154 days ago

My God. What has happened to humanity? What are we even doing?

debirpo.bsky.social•154 days ago

We had a pt one yr ago this week with the same medical issues. It did not turn out this well.

casualnap.bsky.social•154 days ago

My gd this story is devastating

trishalla2012.bsky.social•154 days ago

This is such insanity. Before Roe versus Wade, women were never denied healthcare. If they had a miscarriage, they were given a d&c if it was needed. This is what happens when politicians make laws without understanding the healthcare…

kathleenasmit12.bsky.social•154 days ago

Republicans don’t care about women or babies.

xanthifer.bsky.social•154 days ago

They care about the "domestic supply of infants"

merconceagain.bsky.social•154 days ago

This is horrible.

hmcandyrn.bsky.social•154 days ago

This absolutely breaks my heart. She and her family have been let down every step of the way. There is no safety net nor help to build a better life 💔

radicaloldwoman.bsky.social•154 days ago

The Great State of Tennessee: dead last in so many parameters, thanks to the Republican Supermajority.

It’s a 3rd world state.

notadrienne.bsky.social•154 days ago

That’s heartbreaking. The programs that people voted for are ghost programs. They don’t really exist.

michaeljameshawk.bsky.social•154 days ago

belle25749.bsky.social•154 days ago

💔

artisanbrain.bsky.social•154 days ago

Crazy National Christian / Heritage is just a cult for cruelty.

seminarstar.bsky.social•154 days ago

On Nov 25th, NPR published an interview with Leonard Leo, the billionaire considered the architect of the fall of Roe. They didn't ask one question about the demonstrated effects of abortion bans or how his continuing efforts to shape the judiciary would impact lives.

abnormalwrench.bsky.social•154 days ago

It is crazy how much money the government is paying out for this family, while also forcing them to spend so much money on lawyers. I don't think you could make up a more twisted and sick fictional story.

lizb59.bsky.social•154 days ago

Powerful justification for ending forced pregnancy 🫄

anneski8.bsky.social•154 days ago

Heartbreaking. Everyone should read how this country fails so many people.

denisevoiedevie.bsky.social•154 days ago

I don't know how these 2 managed to keep it together for as long as they did. All of them deserve so much better. There are no adequate words to describe my anger, and I am merely a bystander.

kcjee.bsky.social•154 days ago

This is tragic and these policies and others that TN keeps enacting are the reason I, and so many others I know, left the state. I fear regularly for those left behind.

donnamct.bsky.social•154 days ago

📌

writerartisteh.bsky.social•154 days ago

I kept thinking, This woman needs to be on bedrest for what her body's gone through, not at work after two weeks; why don't systems facilitate that?

switzere.bsky.social•154 days ago

This story has amplified my belief that failure to keep pace with public housing has compounded every other social problem we face as society.

If these people could have secure housing, everything else, however tragic, could be managed.

phmuntz.bsky.social•154 days ago

“They forced me, basically, to have a child,” she said of the state after the abortion ban. But then, “they didn’t help me take care of that child.” Many pro-lifers would call this a success--Look, a baby was born!--but nothing about this speaks well of efforts to curb abortion or care for families.

jls-a.bsky.social•154 days ago

Heartbreaking...

kenyattayamel.bsky.social•154 days ago

Stupid laws

lorijoy.bsky.social•154 days ago

My heart is broken. Where is the church? Where are these lawmakers? Where are the “pro life” folks? Just abandonment and contempt? It doesn’t have to be this way.

adele-jos.bsky.social•154 days ago

Nice state, Tennessee.

hairyhilarity.bsky.social•154 days ago

Reading this was like watching Uncut Gems

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