Louisiana woman denied abortion despite fetus’s fatal abnormality to travel to North Carolina

Hospital feared loss of license as state law did not explicitly allow the procedure for this rare condition

An expectant Louisiana woman who is carrying a skull-less fetus that would die almost immediately after birth has cemented plans to travel to North Carolina to terminate her pregnancy, she said on Friday.

Nancy Davis, 36, has been facing a choice of either carrying the fetus to term or traveling several states away for an abortion after she says her local medical provider would not perform the procedure amid confusion over whether the state's abortion ban outlawed it.