Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.
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.
Barnica is one of at least two Texas women who ProPublica found lost their lives after doctors delayed treating miscarriages, which fall into a gray area under the state’s strict abortion laws that prohibit doctors from ending the heartbeat of a fetus.
Republicans are actively burning ballots, threatening to kill people, purging voter rolls, bribing people, and committing voter fraud in order to get their Kremlin-backed candidate into office after years of very intentionally weakening democracy, and you’re worried people might be reminded of the consequences of their religion-based laws?
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Republicans are actively burning ballots, threatening to kill people, purging voter rolls, bribing people, and committing voter fraud in order to get their Kremlin-backed candidate into office after years of very intentionally weakening democracy, and you’re worried people might be reminded of the consequences of their religion-based laws?
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Yeah democrats sold out to corporations, but calling it a two party regime is just ignorant.
okay so let’s say for a sec they don’t… the choices are don’t care and actively works against
the choice is still easy