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.
Itās valid English and grammar, but itās a potentially reasonable position that anything which requires a specific domain knowledge to interpret may be valid but isnāt perfect. You kind of have to know how journalists shorten sentences to make headlines in order to read it correctly; most native English-speaking adults do have that domain knowledge, but clearly not everyone since OP didnāt have it.
That said, I donāt know why this specific headline tripped OP up. It doesnāt seem particularly ambiguous or difficult to me.