Pregnant Pro-life Texas teen suffers "fetal demise", dies from sepsis due to Texas abortion law

[RobDownSouth]

A pregnant "pro-life" Texas 19 year old teen died from sepsis after her 6 month fetus died inside of her and the rotting flesh and bacteria from the fetus entered the mother's bloodstream caused massive organ shutdown in her body.

But because she was 6 months along in her pregnancy, past the point of fetal viability, this would have qualified under Texas law as a "Late term abortion" had an obstetrician done a routine D&C to flush out the rotting remains of her pregnancy to save her life, and might have caused a doctor to lose his/her license to practice medicine.

Women who have late term pregnancies and suffer the onset of catastrophic health issues are legally pariahs ("Untouchables") in Texas.

It's a gruesome way to die, and was easily treatable in a simpler pre-Dobbs era.

But hey, here on the political board @HisArpy glibly says "she should have simply gone to another state" and @Rightguide opines "geographic restrictions on health care are legal as there is no enumerated Constitutional right to health care".

This is what voters are up against this year...the callous disregard for women's health in the name of ideological purity.

A vote for Trump is a tacit approval for death by septic shock.

 

[adrina]

Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before.

The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps. At the second, she screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.

Now on Crain’s third hospital visit, an obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise,” a nurse wrote, before moving her to intensive care.

By then, more than two hours after her arrival, Crain’s blood pressure had plummeted and a nurse had noted that her lips were “blue and dusky.” Her organs began failing.

Hours later, she was dead.

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From the article.

They're so concerned about life, they let a woman die. Purposefully.

 

[DeluxAuto]

They're so concerned about life, they let a woman die. Purposefully.

And still not save the fetus.

 

[Pad_Foot]

GOD ALMIGHTY allowed this........ SO???????????
Thoughts and Prayers!

Note.... GOD ALMIGHTY allowed ALL those abortions before you had to play your political games

!! Is your God NOT almighty???


Try that with my daughter???????? I guess I would have to get a gun, but who to blame??
Certainly NOT the doctor

This family will sue the shit out of the doctor, the hospital and the state. Just watch!!!

 

[Noitall]

Totz and Prey Errzzz

 

[Bn2f]

Is anyone here a doctor? Does anyone here have any idea the day to day stress of having the life of others in your hands?
I'm guessing the answer is no - no one here is a practicing clinical doctor. But we have all, at some time, imagined having to take a principled stand that may put our work at risk.

I want to be clear: I KNOW WHO THE VILLAINS ARE IN THESE REAL LIFE STORIES.

I guess that I'm hoping that the doctors in Georgia and Texas that have had to watch patients die have sat down with their families and questioned why they are working in these states. I'm asking a lot, but I had hoped that a doctor by now would have stepped up and been the Rosa Parks for abortion and dared the state and a jury to convict them of 'doing no harm' towards their patient.

RIP Nevaeh Crain

 

[Politruk]

Try that with my daughter???????? I guess I would have to get a gun, but who to blame??

Shoot God.

 

[MajorRewrite]

I'm asking a lot, but I had hoped that a doctor by now would have stepped up and been the Rosa Parks for abortion and dared the state and a jury to convict them of 'doing no harm' towards their patient.

Agreed. I’m don’t see how anyone can continue to be a doctor after intentionally letting someone die a preventable death.

 

[butters]

Is anyone here a doctor? Does anyone here have any idea the day to day stress of having the life of others in your hands?
I'm guessing the answer is no

i would take exception to this as a parent: especially when you are a new parent, the stress of making sure your baby doesn't die by you doing something 'wrong' is tangible! maybe it's more mothers or stay-at-home fathers who experience this rather than the parent who leaves the home for employment, but it's very real and moreso here in the U.S i'm thinking given the health system: a baby born to a single or poverty-stricken parents won't have the same access to health care for their child as others might, maybe no transport to get to an emergency room, no money to pay for the treatments.

 

[RobDownSouth]

They're so concerned about life, they let a woman die. Purposefully.

The three Texas Supreme Court Justices who affirmed the deliberately vague heartbeat bill have already been challenged once.

In December 2023, Kate Cox, a pregnant woman who wanted to have a child, got the heartbreaking news that her baby had Trisomy 18, which results in stillbirth or immediate death after birth. She wished to abort this fetus prior to fetal viability, which was allowed in the pre-Dobbs era.

The doctor asked the Texas Supreme Court for clarification and the Supreme Court said, "oh heavens, we're not DOCTORS! You just go ahead and use YOUR best judgement and we'll see you in court and deliver OUR best judgement on whether you can keep your Texas medical license!"

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made deliberately vague conditions in the Texas heartbeat act solely to create situations like this, and the "Three Stooges" (Jimmy, John and Jane) on the Texas Supreme Court have been giggling ever since about this.

Since time was of the essence, and the Supreme Court deliberately scheduled hearing post-fetal viability, Cox derpied out of state for a legal abortion prior to fetal viability.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Agreed. I’m don’t see how anyone can continue to be a doctor after intentionally letting someone die a preventable death.

I'm still amazed that the first hospital she went to, complaining of lower abdominal pains, was given a diagnosis of strep throat (?????) and sent home. That would appear to be an open-and-shut case of medical malpractice.

 

[Saint_Ann]

"Might have caused" ???

 

[deckardB26354]

I'm asking a lot, but I had hoped that a doctor by now would have stepped up and been the Rosa Parks for abortion and dared the state and a jury to convict them of 'doing no harm' towards their patient.

Instead of putting their freedom on the line by violating the “law,” I’d rather see the doctors of these draconian states file lawsuits against those states for restricting their ability to effectively practice medicine.

Cases like this, IMO, would have a better chance of having the SCROTUS rule in their favor and thereby making abortion legal across the country.

 

[Bn2f]

i would take exception to this as a parent: especially when you are a new parent, the stress of making sure your baby doesn't die by you doing something 'wrong' is tangible! maybe it's more mothers or stay-at-home fathers who experience this rather than the parent who leaves the home for employment, but it's very real and moreso here in the U.S i'm thinking given the health system: a baby born to a single or poverty-stricken parents won't have the same access to health care for their child as others might, maybe no transport to get to an emergency room, no money to pay for the treatments.

Yes, and that is kinda why despite my complaint against doctors I don't want to lose sight of where the real villains are.
Abortion is healthcare for women. These draconian laws made up of non medical idiots have kind of leveled the field to the detriment of all women.
Kate Cox does not appear to be without means, but yet, her life was almost ended by the same law that caused the death of Cain.

 

[Pad_Foot]

Shoot God.

That's a problem for an Agnostic.
I'm not quite an Atheist

 

[Pad_Foot]

Instead of putting their freedom on the line by violating the “law,” I’d rather see the doctors of these draconian states file lawsuits against those states for restricting their ability to effectively practice medicine.

Cases like this, IMO, would have a better chance of having the SCROTUS rule in their favor and thereby making abortion legal across the country.

YES ! SCrOTUS LIVES
My phone autocorrects to Trumplikkkans now.
Corporatocracy ?
Well? One of those passes the spellcheck here.

 

[butters]

Georgia Fires Entire Committee on Maternal Mortality Over Leaked Report on Abortion Ban Deaths

Georgia's top health official, public health commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey, has fired every member of the state committee on maternal mortality over leaked stories of women in Georgia who died unnecessarily due to restrictive abortion bans.

The move from Toomey, and ultimately from Governor Brian Kemp, will likely have the effect of silencing future committees from being critical of state abortion laws. Every state has maternal mortality review boards whose job is to gather data on deaths of women in childbirth and determine if the circumstances were preventable.

Other states with abortion bans like Texas have used similar methods, like disbanding committees and creating duplicate positions, to fill review board seats with anti-abortion activists. One such committee member from Texas, Nakeenya Wilson, was forced to reapply for her position after speaking out against the Texas abortion law, but was not reappointed.

"What message is being said to the families who lost their loved ones?" Wilson said. "There’s going to be even less accountability for this to not happen again."

 

[MajorRewrite]

Georgia Fires Entire Committee on Maternal Mortality Over Leaked Report on Abortion Ban Deaths

The MAGA response to rising maternal mortality is to silence anyone who reports maternal mortality?

What a pathetic bunch of jackasses.

 

[butters]

The MAGA response to rising maternal mortality is to silence anyone who reports maternal mortality?

What a pathetic bunch of jackasses.

are you surprised?

they have a clear intent to silence the voice of truth when it speaks out against them
they don't give a flying fuck if it endangers women's lives in these situations. Healthy breeders only... magat breeders loyal to trumpistan

 

[Politruk]

I don't suppose there's any chance Texas will change the law in response to this?

 

[Chernosoth]

RFK Jr. and many more new appointees will be neck deep in this issue, trying to make some sort of policy that can work for late term miscarriages. They will need to consider how often does that happen, not how much are the instances sensationalized.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

RFK Jr. and many more new appointees will be neck deep in this issue, trying to make some sort of policy that can work for late term miscarriages. They will need to consider how often does that happen, not how much are the instances sensationalized.

I thought the states got to decide.

 

[Chernosoth]

I thought the states got to decide.

The feds are still stuck in it as long as HHS exists.

 

[Lance_Castro]

The feds are still stuck in it as long as HHS exists.

Here’s my sgt noshirt imitation reply:

“ you have citations in triplicate for that? If not, I “win” . Better luck next time.”

Ha ha ha!

 

[TastySuckToy]

Funny how the examples here don't show any doctors refusing medical attention to a pregnant woman or denying any abortion service. Only thing being shown is medical misdiagnosis and the pro abortion crowd trying to blame abortion laws for failure of medical experts to realize what the issue really was and not acting quickly enough.