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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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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 189 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 111 points 1 week 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.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

It was the politicians in Texas that harmed this woman. Not the hospital. The Texas AG sent letters to every hospital in Texas saying he would press criminal charges to anyone granting an emergency abortion. As hard as it is for poor and middle class workers, there's no way any nurse doctor or hospital is going to put themselves in front of the Texas government. If they could they would have left the state already. (many have.) Small towns in forced birth States literally have no pregnancy care facilities because the staff has all left.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

Just following orders.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

But they saved the “baby” right?

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago

But they “saved” the “baby” right?

Fify - the baby didn’t make it.

…they said it may have been possible to save both the teenager and her fetus if she had been admitted earlier for close monitoring and continuous treatment.

There was a chance Crain could have remained pregnant, they said. If she had needed an early delivery, the hospital was well-equipped to care for a baby on the edge of viability.

Imo it's premeditated murder.

It's one of the main reasons I got a vasectomy

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Maybe don't let your conservative colleagues know that. They tend to think less of men who get vasectomies for some reason. That could negatively affect how you are perceived at work. Just FYI, from a guy who spent a lifetime working with these cunts.

[-] clif@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I tell everybody as soon as they ask me if I have kids and I live in a very, very conservative area. Fuck em.

Luckily everyone I work with are liberals. Remote jobs are pretty nice.

[-] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've known (or dated) a few conservative men who refused to get vasectomies because they "lower testosterone". And, of course that means they're less of a man (to themselves and others who think that way).

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Is that even true?? You still have your balls, the sperm just doesn’t have an exit route anymore. Like, biology is weird as shit, I could see that somehow causing testosterone to drop slightly for some weird ass reason, but I’ve never heard of it.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is absolutely not true. A vasectomy cannot lower testosterone.

Unfortunately, conservatives are opposed to science, so the research on this topic will be ignored by them.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

I figured, but man, they’re always learning weird new shit about the body, lol.

The funny thing is the dudes worried about low T don’t know T that is too high (according to your body, not according to what you want) just converts to estrogen… which you would think they would be a lot more concerned about, given their anxieties about being too feminine!

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Lol, I did not know that! That's good to know!

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Incidentally, there's a condition called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome that relates to this property. For someone with AIS that has XY genes, their appearance can range from phenotypically male, to phenotypically female, and anywhere in-between. This happens because their cells don't respond properly (or at all) to male hormones, such as testosterone. As a result, the unused testosterone gets converted into estrogen, which their cells usually can respond to. For someone with complete AIS, they are usually born and raised as female, only finding out about their condition when they get to puberty and never have a period.

A quick note: excess estrogen can turn into testosterone, too. And yes, there is also an Estrogen Insensitivity Syndrome, but it's extremely rare (fewer than 10 reported cases.)

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

🌈✨ This knowledge has been brought to you by the trans mafia

[-] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I should have put that in quotes to avoid confusion. I'll edit :)

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