They deny abortion in Louisiana to a mother pregnant with a headless fetus: "I feel like they just threw me to the wolves"

A Louisiana hospital has refused to terminate a woman's pregnancy despite carrying a headless fetus, saying state anti-abortion laws say so, television station WAFB and other local media reported.

The doctors only offered her the option of traveling to another state to have an abortion.

Nancy Davis and her boyfriend were excited about the pregnancy of what would be their second child, but their illusion vanished with their first ultrasound before they were three months pregnant.

The technician left the room worried and a doctor came who pointed to the ultrasound indicating that the fetus suffered from a very unusual malformation that prevents the upper part of the skull from developing.

"It was an abnormal ultrasound, they realized the baby had no head," Davis explained.

“It is painful to know that I will give birth to bury him,” the woman, 10 weeks pregnant, told WAFB.

Babies with acephaly do not survive more than a few minutes or hours.

"There is nothing I would have preferred more than to have this baby," explained the 36-year-old woman from Baton Rouge.

But she, instead of her, she prepared to pay the nearly 5,000 dollars that an abortion costs at the Woman's Hospital, the largest maternity hospital in that state, according to the NOLA information website.

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Following the Supreme Court's ruling that struck down federal protection of the right to abortion, Louisiana almost completely prohibits terminating a pregnancy and even punishes it in cases of incest or rape.

It only makes exceptions in case of risk of death of the mother or one of her vital organs, and provides for certain medical conditions of the fetus for which a pregnant person could request the termination of pregnancy, according to the news portal VICE News .

Doctors determined that Davis's life was not in danger and the Louisiana State Department of Health's list of fetal medical conditions makes no explicit reference to acephaly.

It does include a diffuse exception when there is "a serious and irremediable congenital or chromosomal anomaly that affects the unborn and is incompatible with continuing to live after birth, in the opinion of doctors."

Two doctors must certify it, according to NOLA reports.

In the Louisiana hospital, however, they decided to deny her the abortion and recommended that she travel to another state.

“Florida is the closest place.

So ideally it would be Florida.

If not, the other closest place would be North Carolina or something," Davis explained.

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"I just want you to consider the special circumstances associated with abortion, with medical problems, like this one that should be included there," the woman explained.

But time is running against her.

Florida bans abortion after the first 15 weeks, and she's almost 14 weeks now. The drive to the nearest abortion clinic there takes eight hours;

to North Carolina, the next closest place, it's 15 hours.

"I can't just walk away and disappear," she says, "I have kids."

She is the mother of two boys, ages 13 and 1, and she doesn't have a car because she was in an accident months ago, according to NOLA.

"It makes me feel really bad, I'm alone," she adds, "I feel like I've just been thrown to the wolves."