State lawmakers ādonāt see the mourning and the grieving that these momsā experience after getting a heartbreaking diagnosis, Breanna Cecil tellsĀ Kelly Rissman
A Tennessee woman who was denied an abortion despite a fatal abnormality says the stateās anti-abortion laws resulted in her losing an ovary, a fallopian tube and her hopes for a large family.
āThe state ofĀ Tennessee took my fertility from me,ā Breanna Cecil, 34, toldĀ The Independent.Ā She added that state lawmakers ātook away my opportunity to have a family like my own biological family because of these horrible laws that they put in place.ā
The mother-of-one said she has not felt the same since her doctor told her in January 2023 that her fetus was diagnosed with acrania, a fatal condition where the fetus has no skull bones.
Then, 12 weeks pregnant, Ms Cecil was getting her first ultrasound. She attended the appointment alone, so when the doctor told her the fetus was not viable outside the womb, she was left with only asking the doctor what she should do.
However, she was left with few options. The stateāsĀ near-total abortion banĀ prevents anyone from getting an abortion if there is still aĀ heartbeatĀ - which her fetus still had.
The law makes no exceptions for fatal conditions and also criminalizes physicians who perform the procedure outside of the allowed exceptions.
In some cases youāre right. In many others they quietly send them elsewhere and maintain their stance and standing in the GOP community.
For many of them the issue isnāt abortion itself. Itās doing it openly. Itās the same way many of them feel about LGBTQ folks. They feel that those people should be properly ashamed and only do it quietly behind closed doors.
Many of them would also still like to send unmarried pregnant women off to live with a relative for a bit only to come home in 9 months with a āyounger siblingā.
Sometimes they try and do that - yea. But they usually fail: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/anti-abortion-rep-tim-murphy-asked-mistress-terminate/story?id=50274843