‘I’m Carrying This Baby Just to Bury It’: The Struggle to Decode Abortion Laws
Nancy Davis says that when she learned this month that the fetus she was carrying had a rare and fatal condition, she was devastated and felt that she needed to have an abortion in her home state of Louisiana.
Yet what ensued in the days after she made that wrenching decision shows how the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion has sown confusion and turmoil among doctors, families and officials across the country over when women can be granted exemptions to new state abortion bans.
Ms....