Every day, the realities of post-Roe America get darker. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a mother of one has been denied access to abortion despite the fact that her unborn child has a fatal condition called acrania, which means that it can not survive outside the body.
Nancy Davis said that she and her boyfriend were excited about the baby. The baby had no skull or the top of its head when it was 10 weeks old. The child would die within hours if Davis carried the fetus to term.
Davis decided to have an abortion. Louisiana has moved to pass some of the strictest abortion laws in the country. The state's reason for denying Davis' request was a terrible one. There is no imminent risk of maternal death and acrania is not on the state's list of abortion-qualifying fetal conditions.
Ultra-conservative authorities have taken control of Davis' body and medical decisions.
It's difficult to know that. Davis said he was carrying it to bury it.
She can either travel hundreds of miles to another state or carry the child to term. As Louisiana is trapped in abortion no man's land, surrounded by states with equally or equally restrictive abortion laws, Davis is quickly running out of time to make a decision.
Davis' case is not an exception. A Louisiana woman was forced to endure a "painful, hours-long labor to deliver a nonviable fetus, despite her wishes," according to a court document. After the patient's water broke at 16 weeks, the physician was forced to induce birth because she didn't have enough time to perform a D&E procedure. Louisiana has criminalized abortion for doctors as well as patients, and physicians in the state have been threatened with up to 15 years in prison if they provide illegal abortions.
The woman hemorrhaged and lost close to a liter of blood as a result of the forced labor, according to the doctor's account.
They said there was no medical basis for anything like this.
Louisiana is only one of the states. A girl who was raped was forced to travel across state lines to get an abortion. In Florida, a 16-year-old orphan was denied an abortion because she wasn't mature enough to decide what was best for her body, life or a child.
The care for American pregnant women after Roe is not good. The traumas of each of these cases are unique and show how the abortion restrictions play out in real life. We don't need accounts of anyone's suffering to show that abortion is healthcare.
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