WASHINGTON — Two Texas women whose doctors refused to perform legal and medically urgent abortions met Tuesday with first lady Jill Biden, recounting their...
, Dennard knew full well the prognosis from anencephaly:
Saturday marks one year since the Supreme Court struck down Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 landmark that stemmed from a decades-old Texas ban on abortion. “The Dobbs decision was devastating. And Joe is doing everything he can do to fight back,” the first lady said. “But the only way that we can ensure that every woman has the fundamental freedoms that she deserves is for Congress to make the protections of Roe v. Wade the law of the land once again.”
“It was heartbreaking and terrifying,” Weller said. “My baby would not survive” but to the state, “my life didn’t matter.”A Florida woman told the first lady of her similar experience. “That’s why my daughter was stillborn in the bathroom of a beauty salon,” Cook said. “I was hemorrhaging so much blood that I passed out.”
Nancy Davis, a mother of three from Baton Rouge, La., was 10 weeks pregnant when she learned that her fetus had anencephaly, also called acrania. She ended up going 1,400 miles to New York to get an abortion because doctors in Louisiana feared prosecution or losing their medical license.Dennard had already had a miscarriage and aborted another fetus that would not have survived.
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