Texas Doctors Forced a Miscarrying Woman to Wait Nearly 2 Days Before Receiving Treatment. She Died of a Preventable Infection

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October 30, 2024, 3:08 PM

• •A Texas woman died from a preventable infection after doctors waited for a heartbeat to stop before treating her miscarriage.
• •Josseli Barnica was 17 weeks pregnant when she was taken to a Houston hospital.
• •More than a dozen medical experts said Barnica's death was "preventable.
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A Texas woman died from a preventable infection after doctors waited 40 hours to remove a fetus from her uterus, according to state law. Josseli Barnica was 17 weeks pregnant when she miscarried, but doctors were not allowed to remove the fetus until there was no heartbeat. She died the next day.

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