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A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care (www.propublica.org)

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Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving her daughter would not survive this pregnancy.

The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a deadly infection, more than a dozen medical experts told ProPublica.

But when Barnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told her: “They had to wait until there was no heartbeat,” he told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a crime to give her an abortion.”

For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.

Three days after she delivered, Barnica died of an infection.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The hospital's hands are tied by dystopian laws - this is what "pro life" looks like.

These are becoming way more common the more we let this right wing evil shit sink in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I’m sorry but humans refusing to save the life of another human because of an obtuse law is unconscionable. They should have done what needed to be done and let the lawyers sort it out later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

It's absolutely unconscionable, but it's a medical (and very stupid/unnecessary) version of the trolley problem.

You're a doctor. The tracks going one way have a single patient that you can treat and save. The tracks going the other way have every patient you'd get to see over the entirety of the rest of your career - literally thousands of people.

Treat the one and risk an avalanche of legal problems to include losing your license; the literal thousands of people are now fucked. Skip the one under the legal microscope, and she's for-sure fucked, but your license lives to serve another day.

It's fucked up. It's evil. It's what pro-life gets us.

You cannot expect a doctor to risk their freedom over a single patient. It's like societal-level triage.

You can expect your lawmakers to not craft the world you live in into a dystopian hellscape... when they fail to live up to that expectation, don't direct your anger at the people they've put into a bind; bring it directly to the lawmakers.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

they don't mind killing you and your loved ones for their beliefs. what use is there in taking the high road with them? pacifists will lose this battle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Right, I don't disagree with you, but there is no legal ground on which to sue the hospital. They acted as they were legally required, the law will be on their side. I'd say go after the politicians involved for wrongful death, if it weren't for qualified immunity.

Honestly, I just hope anyone able and willing to leave such shithole states are able to do so, although that's obviously much easier than done. Their leadership has clearly failed them and does not care about them. :(