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.
politicians killed this girl as surely and as gruesomely as any serial killer.
shame we cant do eye for an eye to those brainless wonders in austin
Abandon All Things Texas as best you can.
Let the companies know (who might not have anything to do with this mess) that you cannot morally support tax revenue going to the government of Texass, and therefore can no longer support thier brand.
Bring pressure to bear. A dollar here and there will add up. I’ve even unsubscribed from TX based content creators.
I’ve even unsubscribed from TX based content creators.
At least ask them how they vote, or tell them! Haha
unsubsidized from TX based content creators
What do you think this will accomplish lol
I made it to the J’s before I found a company there was even a chance I might support, and it’s the worst of the sandwich options near me that isn’t a subway.
Sysco was the next one and that’s just because if you go to a restaurant, chances are pretty good they’re getting their food from Sysco.
Mort of the people in Texas don’t support this. More over nearly a majority do not have the means to fight this nor leave.
Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who is primarily responsible for the present situation, used to be my local state senator.
I specifically kept my voter registration in Texas during my college years so that I could continue to cast my vote against him. There is nothing good to say about that evil man.
I like Texas, and I hope that at some point we figure out how to govern it in a sane way, because I unfortunately cannot recommend living there right now.
And necessary lose to keep feeding new workers into capitalism.
Not sure how doctors can willingly comply with this shit. Seems antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.
they justify by saying they can do more good outside a jail. Possibly true. Possible jails need more doctors.
Those doctors are cowards. They can’t jail ALL the doctors, it would be a disaster. They need a union or something. I don’t know ANYTHING is better than letting kids die!
It’s the sort of systematic coldness that comes with procedure. Like even at that last place where she got to the ICU, the nurse “insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm fetal demise”. So clearly the hospital has tried making some “reasonable” procedure, and the nurse wanting to confirm thought “we’ll just quickly get this out of the way” or something.
It’s horrible seeing politics and especially religious political views causing such regression in our modern age where it’s completely needless.
It’s the fear of losing everything that gives these people pause. I hope I’d do better in that situation, but I don’t know what it’s like to face losing everything you worked for in your life as well as your freedom.
The people to blame are the monsters who created these laws.
If you preform the needed procedures your a felon, subject to hundreds of thousands in fines and multiple years of jail. While clearly the net moral shing to do is save the life, its a stupid choice to put on anyone. The laws are evil and so are its supporters
Yeah, it is. And then they think they can afford the thing theyre doing, because they don’t see the sum of all of the others doing the same to the patient.
I’ve experienced something… similar. Not on the same scale, but still.
The banality of evil.
Pretty simple when the alternative is prison
The US healthcare system is pathetic and massive dumpster fire. I’m certain the treatment Candance received was based on her healthcare insurance. The mother should file a lawsuit against the hospitals, Texas and the fucking red politicians who support the cheap shit insurance companies.
Ahhh shit. It’s a young attractive white girl. They might actually pay attention to this one. Maybe…
Not married, though, so I wouldn’t count on it.
No, Fox News prefers to talk about the Democrat villains or the Haitian scapegoats instead.
Sad thing is that these stories don’t seem to get in front of the people who need to hear them. The media censorship in right wing media is as aggressive as the media censorship that they think exists in traditional media outlets.
These same people see school shootings and just think kids dying is the price for their right to bear arms, and they don’t care. I don’t think many of them have the conscience left in their empty Godless souls to care about women dying needlessly if it means their doctrinal nonsense can be imposed on everyone.
Another accusation that masks an admission? I’m shocked!
Monstrous. Just monstrous.
Where were all the pro-lifers? Oh, that’s right, they only care about you before birth. My mistake.
Literally just had an argument with a born again Christian who didn’t want tampons in bathrooms… because tax payers would have to pay and it was the parents responsibility
This guy though has no problem with collecting the pension from tax payers or the church not paying tax.
She did her part keeping the hospital beds available for more profitable patients. It’s the American way. As long as our hospitals (and government) prioritize profits over health, there will be no end to these stories.
I keep saying single-payer healthcare is better than what we have now and get attacked for it. “I’m fine - you’re fine - my kids are fine! Stop saying you want everything for free!” Just because we are ok doesn’t mean everyone else is, you selfish prick.
Remind them it ain’t free. I pay a really small amount of my income tax for this health care.
I mean. All-in, my total income tax is 1% lower than yours on the same income, and I get the healthcare thrown in, and our lower 10% now get free dental care, and now it’s covering more than fillings and cleanings, and now we’re talking vision care … But yeah, just efficient. Not free.
Stop saying “died” - Another woman was MURDERED by ignorant texas bigots in their government and spiteful, irresponsible, freedom-hating voter base.
cruz, abbott, patrick, gohmert, cornyn and cock-eyed Ken the AG, along with trump, corrupt SCOTUS majority and the whole gop giving them cover, are soaked in this woman’s blood.
She was a white woman, literally named heaven HEAVEN backwards, and she’s still dead, you absolute cowards that voted to enable this. Y When will you realize that you’re not safe from this, you’re not different, you’re not “one of the good ones” that will see some protections others won’t. Go have someone read a short poem to you, commonly referred to as, “first they came for”. There will be plenty of words in there you don’t understand, but the gist is, YOU OR YOUR DAUGHTER ARE FUCKING NEXT UP - this dead teenager, who never saw her 20th birthday, is the latest Handmaid they throw on the wall as an example to others of what’s coming.
There won’t be an official announcement when christian fascism takes over your area or else there would have been one a while ago.
That’ll teach those sinful women for daring to have sex without their owners’ permission. Even stuff like this won’t sway the committed republicunts since they can fall back on some bullshit about “god’s plan” or find ways to turn it back on the victims of their politics.
Is there a database that collects these cases? I’m not from the US, but I think it would make a lot of sense to have a website that documents all those cases, so one could point people to it if necessary.
I imagine it would be a HIPAA violation for hospitals to release these details; you only hear about the ones that the individual families decide to make public by speaking to journalists…
…so it’s even worse/more common than you think.
