A woman from Tennessee was forced to endure a dangerous ectopic pregnancy due to the state's draconian abortion laws, resulting in her having to deliver her baby several weeks premature and requiring a hysterectomy afterward, which she did not want, in order to save her life.
Physicians at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where Mayron Hollis sought care for her problematic pregnancy last fall, were unable to develop a treatment plan, due largely to the fact that Tennessee has banned abortion completely, except in rare circumstances, and that doctors there felt uneasy about taking other steps to help the patient.
