WASHINGTON: A woman protested at the State Capitol of the United States of Louisiana for being denied a "medically necessary" abortion after the foetus developed a fatal and rare condition.
Nancy Davis told reporters on the steps of the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana's capital city, on Friday that Governor John Bel Edwards and lawmakers should call a special session as soon as possible to change the trigger laws, which permit an immediate ban on abortion, to make it clearer.
The 36-year-old woman said that the Woman's Hospital, where she acquired the diagnosis of acrania for the then 10-week-old foetus, which is a disease in which there is no skull, declined her request for an abortion.
Even after advising her to end the pregnancy in early August, hospital doctors still appeared "confused about the law and terrified of what would happen to them," according to Davis. She was informed that the baby would probably only survive for a very brief period of time, possibly a few minutes to a week, if the pregnancy was carried to term and delivered. In essence, they told Davis, "I had to carry my kid to bury my baby." They appeared to be unsure of the law and terrified of what might happen to them. She said that it had been an emotional rollercoaster.
The pregnancy should be terminated, according to Davis and her partner Shedric Cole, rather than having the child enter the world only to suffer and pass away in a matter of hours or days. According to local media, the couple already has three children between them, who are 1, 13, and 16, respectively.
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