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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] 2 points 1 hour ago

This headline pissed me off before I realized it was abortion-ban related. Now I’m fucking livid.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This is worse than 'Thoughts and Prayers'.

A lot of elected officials - and their supporters - are accessories to the killing .

This is more like armed police waiting around outside a crime scene and actively preventing any attemp . . .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Everything is bigger in Texas...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 hours ago

What the actual fuck. This is horrendous.

Pro-life crowd, I thought you were supposed to keep life, not end it.

Now there's a man who's a widow, and a child without a mother, and a lady who died for literally nothing.

Fuckin' hell.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago

That's bad.

Republican ideas made into law killed her.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's 2024. What the fuck america

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Don’t blame America for this. Most of us want legal, safe abortion laws. It’s a disgruntled minority of hyper-religious whack jobs that have been handed outrageous power in our top court by a narcissistic sociopath that are to blame.

Evangelicals Christians = American Taliban.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

“Those damn immigrants taking all our healthcare.”

[–] [email protected] 29 points 15 hours ago

I see stories like this a lot and can't believe it. My wife was in a similar situation and had to get an emergency dnc, and still came close to dying from sepsis.

The doctors were so on it, we waited in the ER for a while because they were packed but as soon as they took her blood and realized what was going on she was in surgery within the hour.

Our son want even 2 at the time. If we were 30 minutes west she would've died. It's absolutely fucking wild.

How could anyone think this is right?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 18 hours ago

Pro lifers kill again. They rate the right to live of potential life higher than someone who has been here for 28 years. Someone who left a husband and a child behind. I have to accept I hate pro lifers for the harm they cause. There is no justice in this world as long as these inhuman and barbaric laws are killing people. Real people, not potential people.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (13 children)

Vote Kamala Harris and your sisters, wives and daughters might stop dying for lack of health care when pregnant. Allow Trump to regain power and it will get much, much worse for the women you care about.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 day ago (11 children)

A texas woman didn't die, a texas woman was murdered by the state's ignorant, bigoted, christo-fascist policy - abbott, patrick, cruz, gohmert, that cock eyed AG and the rest of them along with every complicit texas republican voter... they all have blood on their cowardly hands.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

And if she didn't get murdered, she could have been charged for murder for having a miscarriage.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 18 hours ago

we can't tolerate this. these supposed "pro-life" policies are killing, literally murdering women.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago

Pro-lifers doing a fantastic job of killing people. Truly horrific.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

This avoidable and preventable death brought to you by "pro life" partisans.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Anti-choice is gaining more traction and is more accurate. Anti-choice or pro-death is more appropriate and logically consistent

[–] solsangraal 343 points 1 day ago (27 children)

there's another thread about outsiders' criticisms of lemmy, and one of the comments mentioned that it's "unwelcoming to right wing viewpoints"

I WONDER FUCKING WHY

[–] [email protected] 228 points 1 day ago (9 children)

let's keep it that way, the right-wing should be unwelcome everywhere

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Reality has a left-wing bias

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Ok I'm a lefty but I've always hated this statement. It is the launching point of a great deal of ignorance and idiocy, kind of like some religious dogma.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Someone should go to prison for life over this. Jesus Christmas.

If you can't see how wrong this is, you are a broken person.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

a lot of people should. this is a concerted and deliberate effort. it should start with 6 justices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

However it will start with the doctors. The lowest hanging fruit.

[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Many noted a striking similarity to the case of Savita Halappavanar, a 31-year-old woman who died of septic shock in 2012 after providers in Ireland refused to empty her uterus while she was miscarrying at 17 weeks. When she begged for care, a midwife told her, “This is a Catholic country.” The resulting investigation and public outcry galvanized the country to change its strict ban on abortion.

But in the wake of deaths related to abortion access in the United States, leaders who support restricting the right have not called for any reforms.

My country's aptitude for remaining entirely unmoved by preventable tragedies that utterly upend political trajectories in other nations has become one of our most globally defining traits.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago

Leaving Children without a Mother while also killing the Fetus is called being PRO LIFE and PROTECTING THE CHILDREN!

[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is fucking barbaric. The hospital let her sit for 40 hours with a fetus hanging out of her uterus. Just take a moment to imagine what that alone must have felt like aside from the emotional horror of losing a pregnancy. We wouldn't even imagine treating pets or livestock this way but it's clear that these repugnant forced-birthers don't consider women to be people. One little pill to speed up the labor that her body already decided was needed was all that was required to keep this woman alive. What's the point of even having healthcare when we can't rely on it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago

Dear pro lifers. This is her blood. It's on your hands now. It's not the first blood that got spilled unnecessarily, and it won't be the last. And it's on your hands. YOU made this happen.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All life is sacred, except when its not

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