Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023.

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.

Fails, who would have seen her daughter turn 20 this Friday, still cannot understand why Crain’s emergency was not treated like an emergency.

But that is what many pregnant women are now facing in states with strict abortion bans, doctors and lawyers have told ProPublica.

  • @NotMyOldRedditName
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    I love how post something very wrong, challenge it twice and ask if i even know what some words mean, which you clearly didnt, and then wave off how wrong you are and tell me to shut up.

    I even said the sentiment is there.

    What a jerk, you must be fun at parties

    • @Snapz
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      Ah, so yes, absolutely nothing in your response about substance of the point still. Didn’t post anything “wrong” here, you absolute child. You just have no interest in an adult conversation about the actual issue, all highlighted by your “You must be fun at parties”

      Now we all are ready for the impending “touch grass” coming from you… Just couldn’t resist showing your ass there at the end, huh?

      You’re the kind of person that responds, “hitler’s hat was brown though, idiot!”, when someone posts, “hitler was an inhuman, genocidal maniac and a cowardly piece of shit in a stupid beige hat!”. You’re working to distract and drain energy and avoiding the point that matters about hitler.

      • @NotMyOldRedditName
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        Wow dude, you need to chill out.

        I’m just going to keep posting this to every future reply you make.

        Note my edit to your “akin to” comment.

        Respectfully, I don’t know where you are pulling that equivalence from? I don’t believe I said 1 in 5 would likely die from losing a pregnancy?

        Ummm dude

        Texas killing this child for losing a pregnancy is (very similar to) them having you roll a 5 sided dice and shooting anyone who lands on a “4” between the eyes.

        You totally did, and this is what triggered my response.