ABC News' 'On the Brink' covers harrowing stories of pregnant women in states with abortion bans

In "On the Brink," ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer and elder legislature analogous Rachel Scott screen harrowing stories of large women who person aesculapian emergencies successful states with laws restricting abortions and the physicians caught successful a ineligible web erstwhile trying to supply indispensable wellness care.

Watch the "Impact x Nightline" archetypal study by ABC News Studios this Friday astatine 8 p.m. EST.

Sawyer and Scott traveled to Denton, Texas, wherever they sat down to talk with 18 women from 10 states. These women learned the heartbreaking quality that the babies they desperately wanted were not, and would ne'er be, viable.

Several of the women experienced unsafe complications that required urgent termination to prevention their lives, wellness and aboriginal fertility.

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Some of the women accidental that due to the fact that of the laws, they were sent location from hospitals and told to instrumentality erstwhile they became sicker - sick capable to suffice for attraction nether the law.

Many suffered terrible wellness consequences arsenic they got person to the brink of death.

Others fled their location states, sometimes traveling thousands of miles and spending their beingness savings to get wellness care.

Over the people of reporting, Sawyer, Scott and the ABC News squad spoke to astir 100 physicians.

Many described the challenges and disorder astir what aesculapian attraction they are allowed to provide, arsenic good arsenic fears for their patients' lives, arsenic doctors effort to supply attraction for their patients and support themselves from situation time, ample fines and nonaccomplishment of their aesculapian licenses.

Watch "On the Brink" this Friday astatine 8 p.m. EST. See the afloat trailer below:

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