One of the three women suing the state of Texas to overturn its effective ban on abortion vomited while she was testifying on the stand about having to carry the pregnancy of a fatally deformed fetus threatened her life, CBS News reports.
Samantha Casiano read a note from her obstetrician that stated she learned in her pregnancy’s 20th week that her fetus has anencephaly, a deformity that leaves the fetus without part of its head and/or brain, and would die shortly after birth. At that point, she vomited out of emotion, and after the courtroom was cleaned, went back to explain how her doctor gave her information from a funeral home.
Casiano said she had to carry the pregnancy to term in spite of the danger to her own health because she could not get an abortion because doctors feared penalties due to the Texas law. Her daughter died four hours after birth. “I felt like I was abandoned,” the mother of four said. “I felt like I didn’t know how to deal with the situation.”