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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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[-] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 169 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Coach@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

God. I agree. This is horrific. And we have the audacity to consider ourselves a first-world country. Texans should immediately take themselves to the state house to demand better. Our tax dollars pay for hospitals to treat us, not to kill us.

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 153 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Ok, and? What consequences are they going to face? How will their quality of life be diminished in any way?

I'll answer for you: none, because we, the little people, do not matter. Period.

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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 149 points 1 year ago

And Republicans will never care about it. Fucking ghouls.

[-] Fester@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago

There’s always an acceptable number of deaths with the GOP. It’s just happens to be infinite when it comes to healthcare, pandemics, poverty, guns - basically anything that won’t result in punishing innocent brown people. In that case the number is extremely low.

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[-] ConstableJelly@midwest.social 125 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

And that's the difference between a sane country and America. We don't even blink when children are murdered in schools- we sure as shit aren't going to do anything about dead women.

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Supreme Court scandal
Gun violence
Police brutality
Politicized natural disaster relief
Food insecurity
Homelessness
Drug epidemic
Pregnancy mortality
And, last but not least:

Fascist attempted coup

America: 🤷‍♂️

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[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 77 points 1 year ago

Disgusting that a life was lost over a "person" that would have never existed. This is doing wonders for the birthrate they are so worried about. I wonder if they just assumed this only effects the poors cause wealthier people would go to less restricted hospitals.

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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Republicans: “God’s will.”

As long as there was no abortion, their view is she deserves it.

[-] kittenzrulz123 35 points 1 year ago

Its funny how religious people love invoking their holy books to justify hatred and violence while ignoring the parts explicitly saying to not judge others and that human life is more valuable then any commandment from god (also the torah/old testament allows abortion in many cases). Its almost as if those "religious people" don't care about religion and just want an excuse to hate.

[-] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

All life is sacred, except when its not

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well off Republican Christian lives that can afford to go out of state for their moral abortion is sacred to them

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

The hospital should be sued for death from negligence

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

The hospital's hands are tied by dystopian laws - this is what "pro life" looks like.

These are becoming way more common the more we let this right wing evil shit sink in.

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

By who, the state of Texas? This is what they want to happen.

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

The hospital was following Texas law. Any doctor who helped her would have been arrested.

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[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

Greg Abbott and Donald Trump should be sued for maliciously causing death.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago

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

[-] accarezzu@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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, a child without a mother, and a lady who died all for literally nothing.

Fuckin' hell.

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[-] Juigi@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

It's 2024. What the fuck america

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[-] neomachino@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year 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?

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[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Both sides are the same. It can't be any worse with the Republicans in office, so just don't vote. That'll show 'em. /s

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 33 points 1 year ago

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 . . .

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[-] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 31 points 1 year ago

Texas politicians and anti-abortion death cultists murdered this poor woman.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

That's bad.

Republican ideas made into law killed her.

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