Source: Common Dreams
“When Sheena Hamlin found out she was pregnant with a daughter she named Ellie, she was ‘very excited’, until her doctors discovered at around 21 weeks that the baby ‘might survive birth, but that her lungs were so severely underdeveloped that she would suffocate almost as soon as the umbilical cord was cut’. ‘The alternative would be to terminate the pregnancy,’ explains a lawsuit filed in state court on Wednesday, but that ‘was not an option in Oklahoma’, where a pair of laws force patients whose ‘pregnancy will end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of an infant shortly after birth’ to leave the state if they choose abortion. … she flew to Illinois for care shortly before Thanksgiving in 2024, and spent nearly $4,000 out of pocket. After the ‘devastating’ experience, the couple ‘underwent genetic testing and confirmed that Ellie had Meckel-Gruber syndrome’.” (09/17/26)