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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Woman forced to travel 1,400 miles from Louisiana to New York to get abortion for foetus with no skull

AP

A pregnant woman carrying a foetus that had no skull and no chance of survival was forced to travel more than 1,400 miles to New York for an abortion after she was refused care in her home state of Louisiana.

Nancy Davis, a mother-of-three who was planning to have a fourth child with her partner Shedric, received the devastating news at 10 weeks of pregnancy that the foetus growing inside her womb had acrania.

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