The latest ad from President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign mischaracterizes the pregnancy of a Texas woman to say that her life was threatened by the state’s abortion law, according to a longtime obstetrician-gynecologist in the state and an analysis of facts presented by the woman’s own lawsuit.
The ad, titled “Forced,” tells the story of Dr. Austin Dennard, an OBGYN who decided to get an abortion after she learned that her unborn child had a fatal condition called anencephaly, in which the baby’s brain and skull fail to fully develop. She left Texas to go to an east coast state without the same heartbeat restriction as Texas where she could get an elective abortion, and says in the ad that staying in Texas would have put her “life at risk.”
There is, however, no medical evidence that this is an accurate characterization of her case. While anencephaly is a fatal…
