Tabitha Crowe’s first child was due in February 2025, but she had a miscarriage in August. (Courtesy of Tabitha Crowe)
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth installment of an occasional States Newsroom series called When and Where: Abortion Access in America, profiling individuals who have needed abortion care in the U.S. before and after Dobbs. Read previous installments:
- Before and after Dobbs, questions of ‘when and where’ affect abortion access
- ‘A woman’s health matters’: Abortion access allowed a woman to become a mom
- Two women needed to end their pregnancies. Only one got to do it on her terms
- Fatal anomaly exception didn’t spare mom who needed abortion
- After an abortion for fetal anomalies, she hoped IVF would help build her family. Now that’s in doubt .
Tabitha Crowe said she woke up around 4 a.m. one Thursday in August covered in blood. She was visiting her parents in southern Louisiana when she started miscarrying her first pregnancy. She said her mom and dad drove her to a nearby hospital while she fought dizziness from the blood loss in their back seat.