Nancy Davis found out her fetus has acrania 10 weeks into her pregnancy. A pregnant Louisiana woman says she will be traveling out of state next week to get abortion care after she was denied an ...

Near-total abortion bans in effect in 11 states 02:09. A woman whose fetus developed a rare, almost always fatal condition has been thrust into the national spotlight after she said she was denied ...

Acrania cases, like Davis’, are found at a rate of nearly 1 in 1,000 fetuses at the three-month mark of pregnancy, according to the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine.

Acrania is a lethal condition with death within the first week of life, according to the Fetal Medicine Foundation. However, after Davis decided to get an abortion, the ...

There is confusion about whether acrania diagnoses could currently justify an abortion under a catch-all exception included in Louisiana’s abortion regulations.

But because the pregnancy does not endanger Davis’s life and acrania is not among the Louisiana Department of Health’s qualifying conditions for abortion, she was denied the right to terminate ...

State Sen. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, and 35 other Louisiana lawmakers said a Baton Rouge hospital "grossly misinterpreted" a law that allows for exceptions to the state's strict abortion ban.

Adding acrania to the state’s medically futile pregnancy conditions list would change that dynamic moving forward. Once it is on the list, a person with a pregnancy affected by acrania should be ...

But acrania is not among the conditions that qualifies for an exception, according to a Louisiana Department of Health list. And doctors said other potentially deadly afflictions are also not listed.

Diagnosed with Acrania, doctors say the child's skull will never form and the baby can't survive outside the womb.

On Monday, Louisiana mother Nancy Davis told a local news station that she has been denied an abortion in the state even after doctors diagnosed her baby with a fatal condition called acrania at ...