'...I'm carrying it to bury it.'
some of the nation's strictest abortion laws in the months since Roe vs. Wade's Supreme Court Law reversal. In a terrible illustration of the toll of the Roe reversal, Davis' request was denied. The state's reasoning? The fetus' condition technically possesses no imminent risk of maternal death, and acrania somehow isn't on the state's list of abortion-qualifying fetal conditions.
In other words, in a meaningful way, Davis' control of her own body and medical decisions has been ceded to ultra-conservative authorities.She must now make a devastating choice: travel hundreds of miles to another state, where she may also be denied access, or carry the doomed child to term. And as Louisiana is essentially trapped in, surrounded by states with equally or somewhat equally restrictive abortion laws, Davis is quickly running out of time to make the decision.
Perhaps most heartbreaking, though, is the fact that Davis' case is hardly an outlier. Just last month, for example, another Louisiana woman was forced to endure a "painful, hours-long labor to deliver a nonviable fetus, despite her wishes," as the woman's doctor
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