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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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[-] oo1@lemmings.world 8 points 1 hour 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 . . .

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

That's bad.

Republican ideas made into law killed her.

[-] accarezzu@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours 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, and a child without a mother, and a lady who died for literally nothing.

Fuckin' hell.

[-] Shou@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

So the medical professionals listened to a man, rather than the woman? Typical. Men shouldn't have any say in women's health. It's in the nature of males to seek control over female reproduction. If people can't filter this bias, we need a law to protect people against it.

[-] arscynic@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago

“Those damn immigrants taking all our healthcare.”

[-] Juigi@lemm.ee 28 points 6 hours ago

It's 2024. What the fuck america

[-] neomachino@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours 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?

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 57 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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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[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 hours ago

we can't tolerate this. these supposed "pro-life" policies are killing, literally murdering women.

[-] don@lemm.ee 15 points 11 hours ago

Pro-lifers doing a fantastic job of killing people. Truly horrific.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 131 points 16 hours 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.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 hours ago

And if she didn't get murdered, she could have been charged for murder for having a miscarriage.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 12 hours ago

Pure fucking rage. Not advocating for violance but, I would vote not guilty.

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[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours 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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[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 56 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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

[-] dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Anti-choice is gaining more traction and is more accurate. Anti-choice or pro-death is more appropriate and logically consistent

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 311 points 21 hours ago

there's another thread about outsiders' criticisms of lemmy, and one of the comments mentioned that it's "unwelcoming to right wing viewpoints"

I WONDER FUCKING WHY

[-] dandelion 208 points 20 hours ago

let's keep it that way, the right-wing should be unwelcome everywhere

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Reality has a left-wing bias

[-] Coach@lemmy.world 81 points 19 hours ago

1000%. So long as right-wing equates to racist, seditious, traitorous bastards, then yeah...you're not welcome here or anywhere else in this country. Go find Jesus or something.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago

What country?

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 109 points 20 hours ago

I wish the world was unwelcoming to right-wing viewpoints. This is the result and so many people are fine with it. It’s so depressing.

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 44 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] ConstableJelly@midwest.social 116 points 19 hours 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.

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 33 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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: 🤷‍♂️

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

America: this is a very close election, we just can't make up our minds. what about palestine?

[-] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

I don’t understand how a miscarriage counts as abortion. The baby literally died in the womb. This law is sickening. My sister-in-law had a miscarriage last year and it’s scary to think that she could lose her life by trying to become a mother. The crazy part is her religion essentially tells women they aren’t fulfilling their duty to God if they don’t become a mother. (Mormon)

[-] Ifera@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

For them, abortion is extinguishing a life. In this case, the fetus, although no longer viable due to mechanical impossibility BUT still connected to the umbilical cord and inside the placenta, gave it a heartbeat. Any human intervention that would cause that heartbeat to go away, such as inducing labor, manual or physical extraction, or even manual dilation of the cervix, since the fetus being way too young to survive outside of the mother, would end up being the cause of that heartbeat going away, and thus, murder, in their eyes. All they "can" do is "Let nature run its course"

It is beyond stupid, cruel and horrible. Those laws are actively killing people through neglect.

Edit: Miscarriage does not mean the fetus "died", it merely means failure to carry to term or to point where the fetus can survive outside of the mother, which is usually flagged at 20 weeks. When labour started, at an unsustainable pregnancy length, it is counted as a miscarriage because the fetus can't survive on it's own, however it was not a spontaneous abortion because there was still a heartbeat.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 52 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours 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.

[-] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 55 points 18 hours ago

All life is sacred, except when its not

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[-] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 149 points 21 hours 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.

[-] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 hours ago

Not a lawyer, but I wonder if there a case to be made with letting a woman get an infection and die due to the fear of commiting a crime by killing the baby. In the end, two people died, but one could have survived.

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[-] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 31 points 17 hours ago

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

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