what is the state of abortion access now in north carolina, and across the country, what do you say to women who are watching this even fathers, families, people who are watching this and saying it feels pretty bleak? he sounded pretty angry, and i think he is joining the majority of this country who are more and more angry. they have now banned abortion in north carolina at 12 weeks. and that s important for not just the people in north carolina, but for the large swath of countries in the south, large parts of the midwest where abortion access is becoming less and less available. what that means is that people are going to be put in harm s way. we know the stories that have happened over this last year. people who have whose lives have been put in jeopardy. people who have had to travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles to get care.
south carolina has supported this near total abortion ban. they are looking, though towards this six-week ban. if in fact that is instituted. where does that leave women? i mean, it leaves women in a really desperate and terrible situation. here s the thing. if we are going to be having conversations about which weeks abortion should be banned, i want doctors to be having that conversation. i do not want politicians who are playing politics with people s lives to be having this conversation, like we have to understand. these are medical decisions, these are health decisions, these are not political decisions to be debated about. and the idea again that women are having to travel hundreds of miles and those that are not privilege, those that aren t able to take off time, that are able to take vacation, they don t have those, days like, what kind of environment or be trying to create?
hard for legal actions that could minimize some aspects of the bans. restrictive abortion laws are having an impact on many women. just ten weeks into her pregnancy, a louisiana woman was told there was no way her unborn child could survive due to a rare birth defect, but she says she was denied getting an abortion doctors said she needs. instead she ll have to wait and travel hundreds of miles to get help. cnn s dianne gallagher has her story. reporter: nancy davis found out last month that her unborn child would not survive. at the ten-week ultrasound, doctors diagnosed the fetus with something called acrania, it is a rare lethal birth defect in which the skull does not form in the womb. doctors recommend that she get an abortion but then told her she d probably are have to go out of state because they did not believe they could perform it in louisiana due to the state s new near total ban on abortion. acrane ya was not listed as one of the narrow exceptions to that
not survivable so she s going to go through a pregnancy to give birth to a stillborn. i don t know how we protect abortion rights in this country and it seems the only way is the judiciary. they seem to be the last line of defense. this is a horrific situation we re in right now. we hear horrifying stories of people being denied access to care, having to travel hundreds of miles or being forced to carry their pregnancies to term. at the end of the day this is bigger than any single stay. their goal has been to sow chaos and confusion and deny access to abortion care. i do want to make it clear, that in michigan, for every michigander abortion is still legal and safe in michigan but as you said we still have work to do to absolutely ensure that we do all that we can in every way we can to ensure access. the courts is one way. the will of the people is here, and there is something that we can do about it. speaking of 2022, planned parenthood has raised a whopping
for women having to travel hundreds of miles to get an abortion? what is the option right now for a woman and oklahoma, even if the states are not able to provide access as we heard the governor general with difficult. the reality is many of our patients are not able to figure out the logistics to get care. there are some patients who are going to new mexico, colorado, illinois, but for many of the patients we serve, it is an incredible barrier to say that you will have to miss multiple days of work, you will have to figure out childcare. of course, our patients, even though it is legal to cross state lines, they feel like their actions are criminalized. so they re telling us, i think my partner or my parent will be supportive, but i won t tell anyone because i do want to get them in trouble. many of our patients, if they can travel, they are going alone and they are scared. and if they can t travel, they are trying to figure out how to terminate a pregnancy without