A Third Woman Died Under Texas' Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her.
Over the course of six hours on June 11, 2023, Porsha Ngumezi had bled so much in the emergency department at Houston Methodist Sugar Land that she’d needed two transfusions. She was anxious to get home to her young sons, but, according to a nurse’s notes, she was still “passing large clots the size of grapefruit.”
Hope dialed his mother, a former physician, who was unequivocal. “You need a D&C,” she told them, referring to dilation and curettage, a common procedure for first-trimester miscarriages and abortions. If a doctor could remove the remaining tissue from her uterus, the bleeding would end.
But when Dr. Andrew Ryan Davis, the obstetrician on duty, finally arrived, he said it was the hospital’s “routine” to give a drug called misoprostol to help the body pass the tissue, Hope recalled. Hope trusted the doctor. Porsha took the pills, according to records, and the bleeding continued.
Three hours later, her heart stopped.
https://www.propublica.org/article/porsha-ngumezi-miscarriage-death-texas-abortion-ban
Fucking Texass! And now two motherless Black boys....but AbBUTT and Paxton don't give a damn....
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I know what you went through Porsha. I’ve been there with the miscarriage. I do know what it’s like for the doctors and medical personnel to treat you like you do not matter. I am so sorry to you, your unborn child, your children, your husband, family, friends are forced to endure such horror at the hands of the few very mentally sick, twisted individuals. You deserved humane treatment not premature death.
Do no harm doctors!!
