Strict US anti-abortion laws forced a woman to give birth to a baby without a skull

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Carly Cassella, ScienceAlert
Jun. 7, 2019, 12:30 PM

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Recently published under the title " The Myth of Choice", this doctor's harrowing essay is a vivid reflection on one such experience, when a heavily pregnant woman was forced to give birth to an infant with no skull.

Known as anencephaly, this fatal birth defect affects only 1,206 pregnancies a year in the US, and at the severity this doctor detected — with no brain or skull at all, and only a brain stem — it has absolutely no survivors.

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According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, abortions made in the third trimester are extremely rare, account for less than one percent of all cases, and usually involve fetal anomalies, such as anencephaly, which are deemed "incompatible with life."

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