These Abortion Storytellers Won't Be Silenced
glamour.comwhen she would begin treatment, it was a question of whether she would be able to treat her cancer at all. Because of the fetus growing inside her, and because she lived in Louisiana.The woman had been diagnosed just a week or two after the June 24, 2022, fall of Roe v.
Wade, the Supreme Court case that had for decades guaranteed American women the Constitutional right to an abortion. The same day, Louisiana’s so-called “” went into effect, effectively banning abortion entirely.
One of the few exceptions in state law is if the mother is facing a risk of death.In this case, the woman’s physician was Nicole Freehill, MD, MPH—an ob-gyn who has become one of Louisiana’s fiercest abortion-ban opponents. “It was very difficult to navigate,” says Dr.
Freehill. “Does she fall under the exceptions? Even if she does, how do we document this? How can we move forward?”The patient was adamant about what treatment she wanted— an abortion—and Dr.
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