Teenager senselessly killed by Trump abortion ban

Republican abortion bans continue to work exactly as intended:

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.

“Pregnant women have become essentially untouchables,” said Sara Rosenbaum, a health law and policy professor emerita at George Washington University.

It was a staple of Savvy punditry for many years that once Roe was overruled people would basically forget about abortion as an issue.

Don’t worry though, Donald Trump has a solution for people who don’t want pregnant girls and women to die senselessly of sepsis because doctors refuse to treat them:

Trump has repeatedly pledged that Kennedy will play a sweeping role on food and health.

Tonight he specified one of RFK Jr’s planned responsibilities: “women’s health.” pic.twitter.com/kG9TfRv70l— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) November 1, 2024

RFK Jr.’s first act as Women’s Health Czar will be to convene a blue-ribbon panel feat. Sam Alito, Harvey Weinstein, DeShaun Watson, and the reanimated corpse of Anthony Comstock.