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New: A #Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage
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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.

#News #abortion #pregnancy #health #healthcare #government #law

https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital

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.

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Oct 30, 2024 at 9:45amWeb
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Show threadPetesmom *has moved*Oct 30, 2024
@ProPublica State sanctioned femicide.
Show threadGrassroots JoeOct 30, 2024

@ProPublica

More women dead because of Trump’s and reactionary forced-birthers' draconian abortion bans.

Vote for freedom and life.

Vote for Harris-Walz.

#OurFreedomsOurFuture

Show threadVereeshOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica
Abortion ban working exactly as intended, making women scared, vulnerable, and ultimately, dead.
Show threadCassandrichOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica Looking forward to her family being the new owners of the hospital.
Show threadderptronOct 30, 2024

@dalias @ProPublica That's only going to work out for them if it wouldn't in fact have been criminal to save her probably. Or if they didn't have a reasonable belief that it was. Clearly a hospital is not obligated to provide care at all, let alone risk life and limb to do so. This has been decided over and over again when people don't have proof of insurance. "Might catch sepsis and die," could very well not be life threatening enough here.

So I wouldn't hold out hope for a payday here.

Show threadCassandrichOct 30, 2024
@crazyeddie @ProPublica "Clearly a hospital is not obligated to provide care at all" is blatantly FALSE. Hospitals are required to provide stabilizing care regardless of ability to pay. This is the core legal conflict at hand with state abortion bans conflicting with federal law requiring care.
Show threadderptronOct 30, 2024
@dalias @ProPublica Yeah, enough so they're not going to immediately die. Like I said (:p), I don't think "Might catch sepsis and die," very well might not get over that hurdle. Good luck though. A payout certainly should be the least they get.
Show threadBandersnatchOct 30, 2024

@ProPublica

#GOPMurders

Show threadTopKnotOct 30, 2024

@ProPublica

The #GOP is the Party of #DeathPanels. #PraiseBe #UnderHis Eye #Texas endorses the #HandmaidsTale lifestyle. #WelcomeToGilead

Show threadSeegueOct 30, 2024
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Disgusting
Show threadJavielico 🌖Oct 30, 2024
@ProPublica correct the use of words, please, this is clearly femicide.
Show threadJayOct 30, 2024

@ProPublica There is no other scenario where doctors are prohibited from providing emergency care.

None.

This is the only scenario where a patient’s life is secondary.

This is the sickness that will spread to every state if we don’t stop it in November.

Show threadRodneyPetersonTalentAgencyOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica What a Christ fucking shithole of a country…
Show threadBrokarOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica I would have dumped the dead body on the governor's door with a message that it's his responsibility to tell the family how and why she died. Probably should wear a vest.
Show threadIan RamjohnOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica This is heartbreaking
Show threadKid ManiaOct 30, 2024
@iramjohn @ProPublica
☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
Welcome to the United States of America.
Show threadNizami 🇺🇦Oct 30, 2024
@ProPublica
HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest “our responsibility is to be in compliance with applicable state and federal laws and regulations” says they have no responsibility to their patients.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaOct 30, 2024

@EvilK @ProPublica

Then they need to go out of business.

Show threadDon WatkinsOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica What kind of policy cretin enacts and enforces laws that violate medical ethics and human decency.
Show threadGrandpa DonOct 30, 2024

@ProPublica

Infuriating.

Some medical org has to take a stand. They are all gutless. I know they could lose licenses, could be prosecuted. Do they honestly think they would not have hoards of attorneys available gratis? It would be the Scopes monkey trial.
They could be heroes.

They should be charged with murder for not treating her. Unfortunately no other state has standing to do that and Texas clearly won't.
Maybe some wrongful death suits could get their attention.

Show threadCanadian CroneOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica #CriminalNegligence caused by #EvangelicalPatriarchy May they rot in hell
Show thread👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵Oct 30, 2024
@ProPublica The SCOTUS members, as well as state government officials and their families, who inflicted this upon other families better hide behind their security guards. I can easily see the remaining other family members taking justice into their own hands. And, if I was in a jury, I would not convict them. These officials are the real murderers. So, if something bad happens to them, there will be no tears from me....
Show threadcharvakaOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica This completely preventable death is on #WeirdDonOLD, his #CreepyVP and #fLyinTed. Texas, it is time to hold all of them accountable for this and other needless deaths.
Show threadMamiyaMan 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Oct 30, 2024
@ProPublica State murder.
Show threadGilbert PilzOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica If her husband had shot the fetus for endangering his wife's life, a large percentage of Texas would now be catatonic as they attempted to resolve the conflict between wanting to force women to gestate and supporting armed violence.
Show threadAnn McNicholOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica It’s time to prosecute these doctors for failure to provide appropriate care.
Show threadThis is HellOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica 🤬🤬🤬
Show threadBoomergalOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica It did not have to be like this. Trump should have known the hate and disrespect for women that festers in many republican men's hearts. These men believe rape and incest is a sport. Painful and deadly childbirth is a bonus.
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Oct 30, 2024
@ProPublica The GOP has blood on it's hands. The murdering bastards!
Show threadRob NeeOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica Texas seems like a barbaric place
Show threadtony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻Oct 30, 2024
@ProPublica nightmare country
Show threadGraceCOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica Murderers!
Show threadDarwin WoodkaOct 30, 2024

@ProPublica

Abortion. Bans. Harm. Everyone.

Women DIE.

THIS is what happens.

The GOP does not give a damn if women DIE.

VOTE BLUE. ALWAYS.

Show threadKanaMaunaOct 30, 2024

@ProPublica

So everyone had to die in the end. Pretty sure Jesus didn't preach that.

Show threadLibre Oct 30, 2024

@ProPublica Hippocratic oath be damned

This is why abortion is healthcare

Show threadSuePatOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica I'm sorry but if I was a woman of child bearing age, I would be getting out of dodge. And don't give me that "I have family, and work and I can't leave". Well, you can leave for another state or you can leave for the cemetery. Your choice.
Show threadPedestrianError  Oct 30, 2024
@ProPublica HCA as in Healthcare Corporation of America, the substandard for-profit hospital chain that made #Florida Senator #RickScott filthy rich enough to self-fund his many political campaigns? This should affect more than just Ted Cruz’s senate race.
Show threadMetafrastisOct 30, 2024
@ProPublica Americans are killing women in the name of an imaginary being they call "god" and who tells them in their fever dreams that an unborn is worth more than its mother.
Sick bastards 🤮
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Murderers.