A woman from Joplin, Missouri, has filed a lawsuit against the University of Kansas Health System and its oversight body after being denied an abortion at a Kansas hospital following a pregnancy complication that put her at risk of sepsis and death. The lawsuit, filed in federal court, alleges that the hospital violated federal law and a state anti-discrimination act by refusing to provide necessary medical care.
The woman, Mylissa Farmer, experienced her water breaking at just under 18 weeks gestation. Despite being informed by doctors at two hospitals that her fetus would not survive and that she was at risk of serious infection or losing her uterus, neither facility would terminate the pregnancy due to a detectable fetal heartbeat.
