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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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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago

She didn't "die", that implies this was an unfortunate accident or that she just got sick or something.

She was murdered by the Republican Gendercide

[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Punishing unwed, independent mothers is the plan.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 12 points 1 day ago

The cruelty is the point.

[-] Juigi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Insane this is allowed to happen in 2024. And more insane that medical staff are following these caveman rules and are not protesting.

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 9 points 2 days ago

Pro ~~life~~ fetish.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 198 points 3 days ago

Death after death after death. The GOP death cult is doing its job.

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[-] prole 185 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Absolutely horrifying.

The second ER diagnosed her with sepsis and then sent her home because her fetus had a heartbeat.

I'm disgusted. If you are a woman, you need to get the fuck out of these death trap states. It is not safe for you there.

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 110 points 3 days ago

The second ER diagnosed her with sepsis and then sent her home

That right there should be criminal charges. Pregnancy staus is irrelevant at that point. Sepsis will kill you if untreated.

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 132 points 3 days ago

Stop saying "died" - Another woman was MURDERED by ignorant texas bigots in their government and spiteful, irresponsible, freedom-hating voter base.

cruz, abbott, patrick, gohmert, cornyn and cock-eyed Ken the AG, along with trump, corrupt SCOTUS majority and the whole gop giving them cover, are soaked in this woman's blood.

She was a white woman, literally named heaven HEAVEN backwards, and she's still dead, you absolute cowards that voted to enable this. Y When will you realize that you're not safe from this, you're not different, you're not "one of the good ones" that will see some protections others won't. Go have someone read a short poem to you, commonly referred to as, "first they came for". There will be plenty of words in there you don't understand, but the gist is, YOU OR YOUR DAUGHTER ARE FUCKING NEXT UP - this dead teenager, who never saw her 20th birthday, is the latest Handmaid they throw on the wall as an example to others of what's coming.

There won't be an official announcement when christian fascism takes over your area or else there would have been one a while ago.

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Recalled this case that is getting public attention in Mexico. Queretaro, a state in the Bajio region of Mexico known by its conservative ideas, is using their attorneys to try to make a 14 yo child to pay 26,000 USD in damage repair to her rapist, because she suffered a miscarriage. The state attorneys also demand her to go to prison for three years.

Publicly, and in the media, the girl is known as "Esmeralda". I'm sorry I couldn't find a note in English about this case to link. The thing in common between both situations is a corrupted institution that's supposed to protect the people.

[-] nobleshift@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Abandon All Things Texas as best you can.

Let the companies know (who might not have anything to do with this mess) that you cannot morally support tax revenue going to the government of Texass, and therefore can no longer support thier brand.

Bring pressure to bear. A dollar here and there will add up. I've even unsubscribed from TX based content creators.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

politicians killed this girl as surely and as gruesomely as any serial killer.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Probably the Zodiac killer, Rafael Cruz.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Damn right, she didn't "die because of a medical condition"

She was murdered by misogynists

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 64 points 3 days ago

Where were all the pro-lifers? Oh, that's right, they only care about you before birth. My mistake.

[-] auzy@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

Literally just had an argument with a born again Christian who didn't want tampons in bathrooms.. because tax payers would have to pay and it was the parents responsibility

This guy though has no problem with collecting the pension from tax payers or the church not paying tax.

[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

So he's fine if we remove all toilet paper from bathrooms. How he wipes his ass is his parent's responsibility right?

[-] auzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Funny you mention that, because that's actually the argument I brought up.

Even better , toilet paper is stored in the dirtiest part of the bathroom. Tampons they can store at the sinks

[-] senkora@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 days ago

Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who is primarily responsible for the present situation, used to be my local state senator.

I specifically kept my voter registration in Texas during my college years so that I could continue to cast my vote against him. There is nothing good to say about that evil man.

I like Texas, and I hope that at some point we figure out how to govern it in a sane way, because I unfortunately cannot recommend living there right now.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 81 points 3 days ago

We all predicted this would happen because we have a basic understanding of the world and a smidge of empathy. Unlike Republicans.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 72 points 3 days ago

This is the future the Republicans want.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

But also the present that Republicans have forced upon us.

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 47 points 3 days ago

The people that voted for this shit have the biggest blinders on right now. I'm sure they're trying to ignore that anything has gone wrong.

I hope someone with enough money to make this a problem for the policy makers gets after this in court soon. The USA needs to either pass a federal law stating that abortion is legal, or they need a new roe v. Wade judgement on the books. Until one of those things happens, this continual and unnecessary loss of life will continue; it is inevitable.

For people who call themselves "pro-life" they sure don't give any shits about people continuing to live.

Anyone who is anti abortion, this is for you: 🖕

Sincerely,

  • your horrified neighbor to the north.
[-] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago

Not sure how doctors can willingly comply with this shit. Seems antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Here is the oath, so it's iffy. They have no problem with charging exorbitant costs, financially, physically and emotionally, for the training, though.

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago

Around 1 in 5 pregnancies, that's 20%, end in miscarriage. There's a bit of a genetic lottery that is random within this crazy sensitive process of creating a baby. You can be doing everything right, but it doesn't matter. You can lose the pregnancy and many do. And then, statistically, their next pregnancy is healthy and without complication.

There's no fault to a person in this progress, just like there's no fault to how a flower grows - some have more pedals, some have crooked stems, some never grow and stay seeds in the ground. Texas killing this child for losing a pregnancy is akin to them having you roll a 5 sided dice and shooting anyone who lands on a "4" between the eyes.

Ignorance and fear rule the red areas on the US map. Of course those red areas are populated predominately by trees, lakes and mountains, all of which are likely more intelligent and empathetic than the few frightened human voters spattered throughout that share that very rural landscape.

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

Ahhh shit. It's a young attractive white girl. They might actually pay attention to this one. Maybe...

[-] wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 hours ago

No they usually abuse them so they wanna keep that under wraps, like the Catholic priests they kept moving from church to church instead of sending to the cops.

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[-] YaksDC@lemm.ee 53 points 3 days ago

I have a suspicion that a mother who named their daughter Heaven backwards might have agreed with the Republicans up until the time it affected her daughter.

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