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Selena Simmons-Duffin

In Oklahoma, a woman was told to wait until she's 'crashing' for abortion care

Anti-abortion and abortion rights activists protest in Washington, D.C. at the March for Life rally in January. The decision triggered strict abortion bans in more than a dozen states. A new study shows widespread confusion about abortion bans at Oklahoma hospitals. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The molar pregnancy Jaci Statton had would never become a baby. It was cancerous, though.

At the last hospital in Oklahoma she went to during her ordeal last month, Statton says staff told her and her husband that she could not get a surgical abortion until she became much sicker.

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