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.
Maybe Iām reading into it, but this paragraph stood out to me.
Yea seems like the only moral abortion is my abortion bullshit.
Itās just a weird detail for the author to include. Itās a āwhile Iāve still got you hereā¦ā sentence. Itās entirely unnecessary except to make absolutely sure that everyone knows that she is not speaking in favor of those abortions.