cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21511759

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.

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      Wrongful death would be the civil suit equivalent and I’d 110% rule in the plaintiff’s favor. This is why I look forward to jury duty.

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      Oh that’s actually interesting. You couldn’t on the basis of the mother dying, because her life doesn’t matter to conservative leaders and their laws. However, the fetus died as a direct result of the laws they passed. Those very same laws require consequences for anyone responsible for a fetus “dieing”. That’d be an interesting case to watch unfold.

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    She was having abdominal pains while pregnant and the doctor diagnosed her with strep throat.

    They truly don’t give a shit about women.

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    “Pro life” strikes again.

    Please spread these articles like wildfire so people actually understand the impact of their vote. This shit needs to stop.

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    I see idiots saying they support trump because of his “policies”. I just can’t imagine being a woman, or having a sister, or a mom, or a female colleague, or a brain cell, and voting Republican. It makes no sense.