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Tennessee woman denied abortion after fetus’ ‘brain not attached’ slams ban (www.independent.co.uk)

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State lawmakers ‘don’t see the mourning and the grieving that these moms’ experience after getting a heartbreaking diagnosis, Breanna Cecil tells Kelly Rissman

A Tennessee woman who was denied an abortion despite a fatal abnormality says the state’s anti-abortion laws resulted in her losing an ovary, a fallopian tube and her hopes for a large family.

“The state of Tennessee took my fertility from me,” Breanna Cecil, 34, told The Independent. She added that state lawmakers “took away my opportunity to have a family like my own biological family because of these horrible laws that they put in place.”

The mother-of-one said she has not felt the same since her doctor told her in January 2023 that her fetus was diagnosed with acrania, a fatal condition where the fetus has no skull bones.

Then, 12 weeks pregnant, Ms Cecil was getting her first ultrasound. She attended the appointment alone, so when the doctor told her the fetus was not viable outside the womb, she was left with only asking the doctor what she should do.

However, she was left with few options. The state’s near-total abortion ban prevents anyone from getting an abortion if there is still a heartbeat - which her fetus still had.

The law makes no exceptions for fatal conditions and also criminalizes physicians who perform the procedure outside of the allowed exceptions.

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[-] gimpchrist@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

At what point? Because it's perfect English and it's perfect grammar

[-] makatwork@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Yes, of course they would deny the abortion after the fetus SLAMMED the state's laws.

[-] forrgott@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

Technically, that's not a valid way to read the headline. It's either the mother, or the fetus' brain...

[-] gimpchrist@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

As much as I absolutely adore your interpretation there is a comma after that s in fetus rofl

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's valid English and grammar, but it's a potentially reasonable position that anything which requires a specific domain knowledge to interpret may be valid but isn't perfect. You kind of have to know how journalists shorten sentences to make headlines in order to read it correctly; most native English-speaking adults do have that domain knowledge, but clearly not everyone since OP didn't have it.

That said, I don't know why this specific headline tripped OP up. It doesn't seem particularly ambiguous or difficult to me.

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