A Louisiana mother of three was told her baby would not develop a skull and die, yet providers denied her an abortion because of concerns it would violate the state's trigger laws.
A pregnant Louisiana woman says she will be traveling out of state next week to get abortion care after she was denied an abortion for a fetus with a fatal abnormality because it still has cardiac activity. By the time she gets the abortion, Davis will have had to carry her pregnancy for 6 weeks after she made the decision to terminate the pregnancy.
"Ms. Davis was among the first women to be caught in the crosshairs of confusion due to Louisiana's rush to restrict abortion. But, she will hardly be the last, America. She will hardly be the last because the medical team feared repercussions if they provided Miss Davis with an abortion. She had to look out of the state for safe, trustworthy care," her attorney Ben Crump said at the press conference.
Davis, a mother of three, is fundraising online to cover the cost of traveling out of state to get an abortion. According to a webpage shared online by Crump, she has raised over $30,000 by Friday morning and will seek abortion care in North Carolina. Davis says she was told by Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she sought care, that the procedure was not covered by Medicaid in Louisiana and would cost her thousands of dollars, according to a statement from Crump last week.
The second bill makes it illegal for anyone to send abortion pills by mail to a Louisiana residence. Those who do could face one to five years in prison and fines up to $50,000.
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