{"id":299498,"date":"2023-09-29T14:45:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=299498"},"modified":"2023-09-28T18:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T23:19:46","slug":"woman-traveled-abortion-tennessee-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-traveled-abortion-tennessee-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who traveled thousands of miles for abortion joins lawsuit against Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman<\/a> who chose to travel out of state for an abortion at about 20 weeks is joining the Center for Reproductive Rights\u2019 lawsuit<\/a> against the state of Tennessee. In an opinion piece for The Tennessean<\/a>, she called it \u201ccruel\u201d that she was not able to kill her preborn daughter through abortion.<\/p>\n

At 19 weeks, Allie Phillips brought her young daughter Adalie along with her to the anatomy scan of her preborn baby girl named Miley. During that scan, Phillips learned that her preborn daughter had a rare, congenital condition known as holoprosencephaly (HPE), as well as a two-chambered heart and issues with her kidney and bladder. Told there was no hope for her daughter\u2019s survival, she was given two options: carry to term, knowing that it was very likely Miley would die before or at birth, or have an induced abortion, and ensure Miley died in the womb.<\/p>\n

Phillips opted for an abortion, saying she didn\u2019t want to deliver her daughter \u201cjust so I can say I held her\u201d \u2013 but Tennessee has laws protecting preborn children from abortion. If she wanted an abortion, she would have to travel out of state.<\/p>\n

\u201cTennessee\u2019s politicians are passing cruel laws against something they know nothing about \u2013 medically essential abortions,\u201d wrote Phillips.\u00a0\u201cI needed one, and it was traumatizing for me and my family that I had to leave Tennessee to get it. Tennesseans must be able to get the care they need at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

But induced abortions that directly and intentionally kill a child in the womb prior to delivery are not medically necessary. In fact, Phillips was given a choice to wait and deliver<\/em>, or to abort her daughter. There was no immediate threat to Phillips\u2019 life<\/em>, but even if there were, Miley could have been delivered without first dismembering her through a D&E abortion or causing cardiac arrest with an induction abortion. In addition, preterm delivery due to a mother\u2019s life-threatening medical condition is not an induced abortion and is allowed by law<\/em>.<\/p>\n