Best of What Next | The Diagnosis Was Fatal. She Couldn't Get an Abortion.

As the What Next team catches its breath at the end of summer,
we’re revisiting some of the biggest stories of the year. This
story originally ran on March 30. What Next will resume regular
programming next week.  Two weeks after Roe v. Wade was
overturned, Lauren Hall found out the baby she was carrying had a
fatal condition: her head and skull weren’t properly developing.
Texas’s three overlapping bans on abortion forced her to fly to
Washington to terminate the unviable pregnancy. With the Center for
Reproductive Rights, she became one of thirteen plaintiffs suing
the state, so no one else will have to go through what she did.
Recently, a district court judge decided in their favor, but the
state of Texas immediately appealed, leaving pregnant Texans in
limbo until the appeals process finishes. Guest: Lauren Hall,
plaintiff suing the state of Texas over its abortion bans. If you
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