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pnwmom

(109,603 posts)
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 04:29 PM Nov 1

A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

Source: ProPublica

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.

Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

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A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms (Original Post) pnwmom Nov 1 OP
Sick fucks! Xoan Nov 1 #1
arrest the doctors for murder moonshinegnomie Nov 1 #2
And arrest Abbott... GiqueCee Nov 1 #4
Absolutely terrible Wild blueberry Nov 1 #3
There has to be an end to this evil and an accounting! Hermit-The-Prog Nov 1 #5
Abbott and Paxton deserve to live on pikes verargert Nov 1 #6
If anything, put Abbott and Paxton in front of a firing squad for murder of a Butterflylady Nov 1 #8
DU says I can't write things like that verargert Nov 1 #9
Paxton and Abbott are two of the most vile creatures on this planet. Dem2theMax Nov 1 #7
Texas is a real life horror show for women. nt SunSeeker Nov 1 #10
And Ken Paxton leads the Blue_Roses Nov 2 #13
Ban Opus Dei from the Supreme Court ! Captain Zero Nov 1 #11
There are just no words Blue_Roses Nov 2 #12
Sweet Goddess, this is legal murder Hekate Nov 2 #14
A policy failure ck4829 Nov 4 #15
The GOP is the party of suffering and death. City Lights Nov 4 #16

GiqueCee

(1,409 posts)
4. And arrest Abbott...
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 05:20 PM
Nov 1

... Paxton, and Patrick for existing. They are all septic malignancies who should die of old age in prison.

Butterflylady

(4,001 posts)
8. If anything, put Abbott and Paxton in front of a firing squad for murder of a
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 08:36 PM
Nov 1

Teenage pregnant girl and her baby.

Dem2theMax

(10,353 posts)
7. Paxton and Abbott are two of the most vile creatures on this planet.
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 07:02 PM
Nov 1

I am seething with rage after reading this article. I cannot imagine how the mother is dealing with losing her daughter and granddaughter.

I also can't write everything else I'm thinking.

Blue_Roses

(13,425 posts)
13. And Ken Paxton leads the
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 12:23 AM
Nov 2

repulsive shit called, "justice" in all this. He is a disgrace to the human race. The man is a shell of evil. He has no human heart, only vile, disgusting smirks.

Blue_Roses

(13,425 posts)
12. There are just no words
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 12:20 AM
Nov 2

for this. It is beyond horrific and repulsive the way this young girl was tossed around, when she obviously was very ill, but wasn't getting the care she so desperately needed. It breaks my heart.

Ken Paxton is a vile, evil, repulsive man. I hope karma is watching close, because he continues to ruin lives under the veil of "being against the law". He makes me sick. He should be in prison.

I just can't stomach any more of this shit from these bat-shit crazy "people"...

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