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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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[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 361 points 5 days 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 243 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Coach@lemmy.world 97 points 5 days 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.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 118 points 5 days 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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[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 5 days ago

Any space thats welcoming for me (a trans person) is unwelcoming to right wing viewpoints.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 30 points 5 days ago

> Talks against healthcare

> Wonders why nobody likes those speeches

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 155 points 5 days 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.

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[-] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 173 points 5 days 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.

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[-] accarezzu@lemmy.ml 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

[-] buttfarts@lemy.lol 9 points 3 days ago

Hurting women is part of the platform. This is not even an 'unintended' consequence.

[-] ConstableJelly@midwest.social 129 points 5 days 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.

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

Its the downside of being a melting-pot: too many different worldviews. The Australians could get together and ban guns, the Irish could fight for women's rights. Here, if one side of the country tries to enact change the other side will fight tooth and nail to stop it.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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 38 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 154 points 5 days ago

And Republicans will never care about it. Fucking ghouls.

[-] Fester@lemm.ee 55 points 5 days 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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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 79 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[-] oo1@lemmings.world 33 points 4 days 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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[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

This headline pissed me off before I realized it was abortion-ban related. Now I’m fucking livid.

[-] Juigi@lemm.ee 42 points 4 days ago

It's 2024. What the fuck america

[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Don’t blame America for this. Most of us want legal, safe abortion laws. It’s a disgruntled minority of hyper-religious whack jobs that have been handed outrageous power in our top court by a narcissistic sociopath that are to blame.

Evangelicals Christians = American Taliban.

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[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago

Pro lifers kill again. They rate the right to live of potential life higher than someone who has been here for 28 years. Someone who left a husband and a child behind. I have to accept I hate pro lifers for the harm they cause. There is no justice in this world as long as these inhuman and barbaric laws are killing people. Real people, not potential people.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 65 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

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[-] neomachino@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days 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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[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 82 points 5 days 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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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

That's bad.

Republican ideas made into law killed her.

[-] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago

All life is sacred, except when its not

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[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

In 2006, when I was about 6 years, my mother, sadly, suffered a miscarriage. It devestated our family. This also marked a turning point in my life as my parents divorced not long after. It's stories like these that make me wonder what would have happened to my dear mother after her miscarriage if the same fundamentalist theocrats were in power then. Would they have arrested her? Would she have died under the same atrocious conditions that Ms. Barnica had to suffer? What will happen to my wife if, goodness forbid, something similar happens to her? This story highlights why, five days from now, you MUST vote. We have make that incidents like these don't repeat. Don't just do it for your sake. Do it for the sake of those dearest and nearest to you.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 5 days ago

Republicans: “God’s will.”

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

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 5 days 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.

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 45 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago

The hospital should be sued for death from negligence

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 64 points 5 days 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 5 days ago

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

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[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 28 points 5 days ago

Someone should go to prison for life over this. Jesus Christmas.

If you can't see how wrong this is, you are a broken person.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

a lot of people should. this is a concerted and deliberate effort. it should start with 6 justices.

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[-] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 32 points 5 days ago

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

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days 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

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