Miscarrying Texas Mother Becomes Latest Woman to Die As Doctors Risk 99-Year Prison Sentence for Administering Life-Saving Drug

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November 25, 2024, 8:47 PM

• •Porsha Ngumezi died of blood loss after suffering a miscarriage at 11 weeks pregnant.
• •Doctors refused to perform a D&C, a common procedure to stop bleeding after a miscarriage, because of Texas' abortion ban.
• •Porsha's death is the fifth preventable death caused by a lack of access to a D&C in the first trimester or a dilation and evacuation in the second. Three of these deaths occurred in Texas.

A Texas mother died after suffering a miscarriage because doctors were afraid to give her life-saving care due to the state's abortion ban.

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