Four women who were denied abortions in Idaho — which has a nearly total abortion ban– tearfully testified on Tuesday in a case that seeks to clarify medical exceptions. They testified about their nonviable pregnancies as part of a lawsuit filed by women who were unable to receive abortions due to Idaho’s total ban. Trump, who overturned Roe, received 66.9% of votes for the presidential election in the state.
ABC News reports:
Rebecca Vincen-Brown tearfully described delivering her pregnancy in the bathroom of a hotel room after she drove seven hours to receive abortion care in Portland, Oregon. She passed her pregnancy after the first day of her two-day abortion procedure, with her other child in the next room, she testified on the stand.
Vincen-Brown, who was pregnant with her second child, discovered at a 16-week anatomy scan that her fetus had several fatal fetal conditions and was unlikely to survive. Doctors also told her that there were risks to her life and health — including preeclampsia, hemorrhaging, high risk of miscarrying and risks to her fertility — if she continued carrying the pregnancy.
The second woman:
Jillaine St.Michel, also a plaintiff in the lawsuit, described making calls to over 20 clinics out of state to get abortion care after she received a fatal fetal diagnosis.
