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.

    • @frunch
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      156 hours ago

      Probably the most common right-wing taking point these days. This is the level of discourse the GOP has to offer at this point

      • Flying Squid
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        156 hours ago

        Their trollish response to me suggests they’re not the most educated of people.

        • @frunch
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          146 hours ago

          They rarely are. Hate is stupid and easy. You don’t need to think in order to hate, you just see someone and decide they’re bad for whatever reason you like. Heck, if you can’t find a reason let Fox and Friends™ find one for ya 😀

        • Flying Squid
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          86 hours ago

          But how will you see their well-reasoned rebuttals now?

      • @tee9000
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        Removed by mod

        • @Zombiepirate
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          156 hours ago

          “I added nothing useful to the conversation and got nothing useful out of it. Fuckin’ leftists.”

        • @JonsJavaM
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          86 hours ago

          Hey, mod here. I’ve removed 2 of your comments, because they were trolling. Please read the rules. The next time this happens, we will be giving you a temporary ban.