Alabama wouldn't allow a mother to get an abortion despite doctors saying the fetus likely wouldn't survive

• An Alabama woman was denied an abortion, even as doctors said her fetus was unlikely to survive.
• There were multiple complications with the fetus, but officials still rejected her request, ABC News reported.

Alabama hospital officials wouldn't allow a mother to get an abortion, ABC News reported, even though the woman says her doctor told her the fetus had a "negligible" chance of surviving.

Kelly Shannon, who lives in Alabama with her husband and infant daughter, told ABC News she learned she was pregnant at the end of last year, but testing revealed that the fetus had swelling in its head and body, a heart defect, and a growing tumor that was already a third of the size of the fetus.

Additionally, doctors told Shannon that the fetus had an 87% chance of developing Down syndrome, ABC News reported.

Doctors told Shannon that her fetus likely wouldn't survive, ABC News reported.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year and stripped the constitutional right to an abortion, Alabama passed a near-total ban on abortion — forbidding the procedure from the point of conception except in limited circumstances when the mother's life is in danger.

Shannon told ABC News her case was reviewed by a committee of 13 doctors who denied her request to have an abortion because the fetus' complications weren't severe enough.

"The committee felt that since each condition was by itself potentially survivable — not that they would lead to any kind of quality of life, just that they could potentially lead to life — that under Alabama law they did not think that my case met the criteria for termination," Shannon told ABC News.

Ultimately, Shannon traveled more than 12 hours to Virginia to get the procedure, ABC News reported.

"This has been the single most painful and traumatic experience of my life and our lives," Shannon said.