When she learned her fetus had a deadly congenital condition, she asked to terminate the pregnancy. The procedure should have been legal, even under Louisana's ban — but the hospital denied her anyway. (WWNO)
Instead, a Woman’s Hospital spokesperson said they denied Davis’ abortion because of other anti-abortion laws on the books — laws that have been piling up for decades, some of which had been blocked by federal courts before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. But the hospital would not say which law in particular caused it to refuse Davis’ abortion.
Woman’s Hospital declined to state whether it will provide abortions for medically futile pregnancies in general, or whether it has in the past. Willis-Knighton, the primary health care provider in northwest Louisiana, also declined to say whether it provides abortions for lethally sick fetuses. In contrast, a statement from LCMC Health, based out of New Orleans, said their providers “have always offered the clinical care necessary to end medically futile pregnancies where the congenital or chromosomal anomaly is incompatible with sustaining life after birth,” and LCMC will continue that practice as long as they comply with state laws.
Williams is among a small group of physicians at Ochsner who specialize in these complicated pregnancies. Williams, who was an OBGYN resident at Ochsner from 2013 to 2017 and returned as a maternal fetal medicine specialist in 2020, said Ochsner doesn’t routinely provided abortions for fetal anomalies.
He told the story of one patient who had an abnormal ultrasound at the end of her first trimester. But it wasn’t until the middle of her pregnancy that it was clear the baby wouldn’t survive due to problems with its brain, liver and heart. The patient wanted an abortion, but she didn’t have the resources to travel out of state to get one, and Williams said he couldn’t provide her one at Ochsner. She had to continue the pregnancy, and had a stillbirth in her third trimester.
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