Skjellyfetti wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 8:55 am
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.
https://www.propublica.org/article/joss ... ortion-ban
The main reason why if the Republicans lose the election (President, Senate control, House control, or whatever) should be because of their absolutely inane and imbecilic passing of laws following Dobbs that just defy all medical soundness. Not being able to abort unviable fetuses, not being able to abort babies who are 100% going to be stillborn, not being able to resort to abortions to save the life of the mother, etc, are just fantastically stupid ideas that somehow got into law and resulted in actual people dying as a result. The pro-life movement should've been ready at the get-go post Dobbs (they had 50 years to get ready) to come to the table with sensible laws that protected commonsense procedures where "abortion" procedures would be allowed, but instead, while they were spiking the ball in the endzone, they let unqualified and ignorant lawmakers in various states pass such draconian and insane laws that pissed off enough people that they'll still be fighting an uphill abortion battle against an energized base (like they did in 2022) through this election and many elections to come. Again, it wasn't the Dobbs decision that did this, but far more so the legislative actions of misguided and uninformed lawmakers. Shame on them.
You can be against abortion, especially after viability, but also be against some of the more draconian laws passed by GOP led state legislatures.