Propublica on Monday received a prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the series “Mother’s life“Which Described by the judges As “an urgent report on pregnant women who died after the doctors have stretched urgently, it is necessary to take care, fearing the vague” Mother’s Life “in the States with strict abortion laws.” The prize is awarded to the employees of the information organization, which performed the “Honored State Service”. This is the second year in a row when the organization was awarded the difference. This is the eighth Pulitzer for Proopublica.
“Mental barrier of America“Expertise how insurance companies hinder access to mental health assistance across the United States, was named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category. In addition to Pulitzer’s winners, the designation is the 12th Pulitzer Pulitzer Pulitzer for 17 years.
The “Mother’s Life” series, which Prapublica continues to engage in, is a landmark investigation into irreversible, irreversible consequences of the abortion ban. Cavha is a crane. Lizzie Pressor and Cassandra Yarla Destinated hospitals and records of deaths in the States, whose strict abortions were banned from threatening to doctors with persecution. From the tragic death Amber Turman in Georgia to bending accounts of Women denied rescue assistance In Texas, the investigation covered deep human costs for this policy. They exposed the cooling impact on Medical workers make you choose between oath and law. longing that families face and Wide Erosion of Women’s Health and Autonomy.
Enchanting Photo -Jackery Essay Stacey “A year after abortion abortion“He recorded solving the Tennessee family after a denied abortion for a life -threatening pregnancy, especially in the state with miserable support of poor mothers. The subject, reportedly, helped the audience to see, feel and understand how the decisions made in families affecting power.
These stories ignited outrage across the country, became a conversation during the presidential election and inspired actions. Legislators have filed more than a dozen bills expand abortion access to at least seven states.
Last week, Texas Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 31, called the Law on the Life of the Mother, aimed at preventing the death of a mother within a strict ban on the abortion of the state, making it clear that a life -threatening emergency should not be inevitable for doctors to adhere to their medical standards and intervene to stop pregnancy.
The bill is a significant cancellation for the national leaders who have insisted that no changes are required. It was written by the state senator Brian Hughes, the author of the initial ban that originally said it Exceptions from medical emergencies were “clearly enough“The bill stops removing what doctors say they are the largest obstacles to care, including its threat to major criminal punishments for healthcare providers, and this does not expand access to abortions to fetal abortions, rape or incest, which can still do it.”
Investigation of the US Senate Financing Committee, launched in response to our reportIn December 2024, they released a report on 29 pages showing that it turned out Hospitals give minimal recommendations for doctors who move on abortion restrictionsOften leaving them without clear protocols in life situations or death.
A HOST OF PROPBLICANS HELPED Elevate This Project, Including Alexandra Zayas, Ziva Branstetter, Andrea Wise, Tracy Weber, Boyzell Hosey, Mariam Elba, Robin Fields, Anna Donlan, Allen Tan, Kirten Berg, Je. Ernshausen, Doris Burke, Lexi Churchill, Andrea Suozzo, Audrey Dutton, Anna Maria Barry-Cester, Emily Yurkan, Emily Goldstein, Diego Sorbara, Samantha Kuni, Grace Palrer, Colin Bari, Cassie Naharez and Saphia.
“We knew early that abortion prohibitions could have mortal consequences for women, not just those seeking abortion,” said Weber, the head of the propublica editor for the National Staff. “Our journalists and their editor Alex Kasas were endlessly creative, knocked, humane and cautious, emerged by the death of these women when the states themselves did not look. We are so honored that the Pulitzer Council recognized their efforts.”
The series was awarded the finalist Pulitzer in explanatory reporting, journalists Annie Waldman, SUA Eldebe, Max Blau and Mayan Miller showed how health insurers are engaged in aggressive tactics that pushes therapists out of the networks; deployment Algorithmic system to restrict coverage; Creating “Ghostly networks“; Reduction of access to Treatment for children with autism; leaning on doctors whose opinions have been criticized by vessels; and the use of patients’ progress to justify the rejection.
Reporters many thousands of tips; obtained explosive documents of the internal company; Thousands of pages of submission of lawsuits to identify doctors who allocate refusals; And included the destruction and intimate stories of patients for whom the care was cut off early, which led to devastating consequences.
In September 2024. Biden’s administration announced The fact that he has finalized new rules for strengthening mental health protection and prosecution of insurance companies for illegal refusal. In December 2024, after several PROPBLICA, USA, Chris Murphy, Tina Smith and Ben Ray Lugan stories, the law on parity was re -presented to bring the US Authorities to the US Department of Labor for the introduction of civilian punishment law. Next month, Department of Labor found extensive failure and violation of the federal law In how healthcare plans and insurers cover mental health, the results that reflect the PROPBLICA investigation. The Department also began to investigate the supervision and management of doctors hired by insurers who repeatedly denied mental health coverage for patients.
Steve Mills, Mara Shalhoup, Charles Ornstin, Ariana Tobin, Zisiga Mukulu, Tony Luong, Alex Bandoni, Agnel Philip, Vanessa Saba, Chris Morran, Cengiz Yar, Isabelle Yan, Lena Groeger, Zayas, Zayas Berg, Ernshausen, Tan, Goldstein, Palmieri, Sorbara, Wise, Barry, Kuni and Page Pfleger from Public Radio WPLN/Nashville contributed to the series. Some works were published in cooperation with NPR.
“People who need mental health often cannot get it. It doesn’t matter you are rich or bad, insured or not insured, lack of access is widely felt,” said Orstein, head of the propublica on the local. “So many people in our employee wanted to become a participant in this project. Thanks to exciting stories and investigations, they cleverly recorded the causes of the crisis, responsible and regulators who stood nearby and did little to fix it.”
PROPUBLICA received Pulitzers for civil service In 2024, National Reporting In 2020, Writing a feature In 2019, civil service In 2017, explanatory reporting In 2016, National Reporting In 2011 and Investigation of reporting In 2010. civil service In 2020.
