Women in three states are challenging strict abortion laws that went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year
, but that injunction has since been blocked as the case is appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.
Spokespersons for attorneys general in Idaho and Tennessee, which are both named as defendants in the cases, did not respond to emailed requests for comment. A spokesperson for OU Health, the hospital named in the Oklahoma complaint, also did not respond to an emailed request for comment. Blackmon stopped taking her medications in order to protect her fetus, but a 15-week ultrasound showed that several of the baby's major organs were growing outside its stomach, and it would likely not survive. Yet despite the fatal diagnosis, her medical team told her she didn't have the option to have an abortion because of the ban that quickly went into effect in Tennessee after Roe was overturned.
Dr. Emily Corrigan, one of the physicians involved in the Idaho lawsuit, said she often struggles to understand what care she can legally provide to her pregnant patients.
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