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Brett Wilkins

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Woman traveled 2 500 miles for abortion | History Defined

Pro-choice activists join a rally in support of women's rights in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington DC (ANNA-ROSE GASSOT/AFP via Getty Images)

A Louisiana woman who was denied an abortion despite carrying a fetus with a fatally flawed skull revealed Wednesday that she had traveled nearly 2,500 miles round trip to New York City in order to undergo the procedure.

Nancy Davis, 36, told the Guardian that she traveled from her hometown of Baton Rouge to a Manhattan clinic, where she terminated her wanted pregnancy on Sept. 1.

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