Kentucky couple 'furious' state abortion laws meant they couldn't hold their daughter to say goodbye
All Heather and Nick Maberry wanted to do was hold their dead baby, but strict Kentucky abortion laws meant they couldn’t.
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All Heather and Nick Maberry wanted to do was hold their dead baby, but strict Kentucky abortion laws meant they couldn’t.
A Kentucky couple was forced to travel out of state for an abortion due to a strict ban on the procedures. Then, they were unable to hold their dead baby daughter to say goodbye to her
Kentucky law bans abortions except when they’re carried out to save the life of the mother or to prevent disabling injury. It does not include exceptions for cases of rape
Heather Maberry's daughter had anencephaly, a serious birth defect in which the brain and skull do not fully develop.
A Kentucky mother of three was forced to travel hundreds of miles to Illinois to receive an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, a serious birth defect where the skull doesn’t develop, at her 20-week ultrasound appointment.