cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21436202
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.
Brought to you by the party of “pro-life” without exception, everyone—the consequences of their decisions here on full, ugly display.
Remember that when you vote.
At least she’s not in Texas anymore
I like a good dark joke but that’s pushing it
Funny how I say the same thing about Texas’s laws and now here we are at legally enforced medical malpractice. I’ll ease up on the jokes when Texas stops sipping the facs-aid
At least the power grid is solid
Good god that’s fucking horrifying.
By design.
