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What a High-Risk Pregnancy Looks Like After Dobbs

Catrina Rainey and James Packwood and their 9-year-old son at home in Fairview Park, Ohio. What a High-Risk Pregnancy Looks Like After Dobbs. September 2022. Additional information: Catrina Rainey and James Packwood and their 9-year-old son at home, in August, one month before her due date. In May, Catrina learned that one of the twins she was carrying had a severe birth defect of the brain that meant it was unlikely to live past six months outside the womb and could, until birth, threaten the viability of the other fetus. A reduction — the termination of an unhealthy fetus to protect a healthy sibling — took place in May. It was one of the last such procedures performed in Ohio, after the state made them illegal, following the Dobbs decision. The Cleveland Clinic offers some of the best care for high risk pregnancies in America. But the overturning of Roe V. Wade has drastically changed the options for doctors in states like Ohio. Stephanie Sinclair spent two weeks capturing this newly unsettled world.

What a High-Risk Pregnancy Looks Like After Dobbs

Megan Keeton, 31, before (top) and immediately after a cesarean-section delivery. What a High-Risk Pregnancy Looks Like After Dobbs. September 2022. Additional info: Megan Keeton, 31, before (top) and immediately after a cesarean-section delivery. Complications from two earlier pregnancies — one resulting in a stillbirth, the other in the birth of her daughter, Aryia, now 7, who has spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy — led doctors to tell Keeton she should not become pregnant again because of the risks to her health. (She had a stroke soon after her daughter’s birth.) But just before she was going to make an appointment to get her tubes tied late last year, she found out she was pregnant for a third time. “I was asked if I wanted to have an abortion, and I said no,” Keeton says. The Cleveland Clinic offers some of the best care for high risk pregnancies in America. But the overturning of Roe V. Wade has drastically changed the options for doctors in states like Ohio. Stephanie Sinclair spent two weeks capturing this newly unsettled world.