Eight women are suing three states with near-total abortion bans. This is how Tennessee mom Allie Phillips became one of them.
"My husband asked: 'How long does she have?'" Phillips says." said: 'We don't know, there's no way to tell because of her condition' ... but the longer she's in my womb, the worse she's going to get and the higher the risk to my health. We had to make a decision — my life was on the line, too."Phillips was thrilled to tell her then 5-year-old daughter she was going to be a big sister in October 2022.
Phillips says she was told because there was hardly any amniotic fluid surrounding Miley, she would surely suffocate in utero, in addition to the serious issues with her kidneys, bladder, stomach, lungs and heart. "She cried and said: 'I want my sister,'" Philips continues through tears."I said: 'I know honey, we want her too."Phillips and her husband, Bryan, had to find an out-of-state clinic that would provide abortion care.Phillips was nearing 20 weeks of pregnancy. One clinic in Chicago told her an abortion procedure at 20 weeks would be $1,500.
Desperate, Phillips and her husband set up a GoFundMe to help pay for the cost of travel, lodging, food and the procedure itself."It just kind of gave me faith in humanity and made me feel very supported and loved," Phillips says. "My whole body was shaking when they brought me back to get the anesthesia," Phillips says."When I woke up I asked if it was successful. The nurse said: 'Yes ma'am.' I said: 'So, I'm not pregnant anymore?' She said: 'No ma'am, you're not.'"Phillips says being forced to leave her home state to get an abortion while mourning the loss of her daughter was"exhausting.
"The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a complaint in state court arguing that pregnant people in Tennessee are being deprived of their right to life via the abortion ban," Linda Goldstein, a senior council for the, said in a press call on Tuesday, Sept. 13."Their lives and their health were threatened by continuing their pregnancies, so we are arguing that the state constitution bars that kind of treatment of pregnant people.
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