Texas Kills Another Woman

Monday, November 25, 2024

Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her. Over the course of six hours on June 11, 2023, Porsha Ngumezi had bled so much in the emergency department at Houston Methodist Sugar Land that she'd needed two transfusions. But when Dr. Andrew Ryan Davis, the obstetrician on duty, finally arrived, he said it was the hospital's "routine" to give a drug called misoprostol to help the body pass the tissue, Hope recalled. Three hours later, her heart stopped. The 35-year-old's death was preventable, according to more than a dozen doctors who reviewed a detailed summary of her case for ProPublica.

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The bloated orange pedo adds to his already massive body count.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-11-25 10:03 AM

Horrific story, and Texas needs to fix it's law but this really seems like even given the law as is that this was medical malpractice, outright.

The doctors could have documented things better, and had a clear case to do a D&C... In the write up they did say doctors are afraid of the law, but were sure to point out that many take the easy road to avoid the paperwork. Any doctor that allows you to die to avoid paperwork needs to find a new field. A doctor letting you die to avoid 99 years in prison, I understand, hence why the law needs to fixed.

#2 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-11-25 10:45 AM

Texas law allows abortions to save the life of the mother. This debacle is the Doctor/hospital's doing.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-11-25 10:53 AM

got to keep blood thirsty Christians who are telling themselves she is in heaven with Jesus now so it's just fine that now he sons don't have their mother.

#4 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-25 10:58 AM

"That women will be injured and killed by unsafe outlaw abortions and by forced pregnancies is not a great concern of the birth forcers - those wayward women should have known better than to get pregnant out of wedlock in the first place, and if raped oh well, the growing soul inside them takes priority to its reproductive vessel who needs to understand their Godly prolife duty. If a woman who would have gotten a legal termination if she could because it is safer than not having one happens to die from what seemed like a normal pregnancy oh well that's too bad, it's God's Will anyhow, and if she was right with Christ she is in a better place so what is the big problem. The wastage of pregnant women is well worth the glorious aims of the prolifers."

Gregory S. Paul

#5 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2024-11-25 12:02 PM

Texas law allows abortions to save the life of the mother. This debacle is the Doctor/hospital's doing.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Are you telling us that you have a better understanding of intricacies of Texas law as related to abortion than all of the attorneys who work for both healthcare providers that treated the patient?

#6 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-11-25 12:19 PM

This is medical malpractice.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-25 12:20 PM

It has to be said........but these deaths won't represent the tipping point they should be.

I feel horrible posting this but until some upper middle class or even a wealthy white women suffer a similar demise.......it's going to take longer.

#8 | Posted by eberly at 2024-11-25 12:26 PM

you're not wrong, eberly.

#9 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-25 12:39 PM

"I feel horrible posting this ... "

Sounds almost like you think that race had something to do with it.

Surely discrimination wasn't the problem. Racial discrimination is against the law.

And anyway the Supreme Court has ruled that race discrimination is "a problem of a different generation".

So. Not OUR problem anymore.

Whew. So glad that's over.

...

This is medical malpractice.

#7 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Let the lawsuits begin. It's the world you chose. Strap on a gun and STFU.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-25 12:42 PM

Must not be an issue if they have dig so hard and twist facts to this degree.

#11 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-11-25 12:56 PM

This is medical malpractice.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-25 12:20 PM | Reply

This is what you wanted. Own it Jeff.

#12 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-11-25 01:03 PM

Nobody wants people to needlessly die. Also, I support abortion during the first trimester.

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-25 01:05 PM

Nobody wants people to needlessly die. Also, I support abortion during the first trimester.

Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-25 01:05 PM | Reply

Then stay out of the private decisions between a pregnant woman and her Doctor. Even you are trying to tell them when they can and cannot make those decisions for themselves. Own it Jeff.

#14 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-11-25 01:09 PM

medical malpractice

Sure. Doctors used to be able to, uh, be doctors, but now it's "medical malpractice" not doing paperwork and consulting a team of lawyers while a women is bleeding to death in the emergency room.

#15 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2024-11-25 01:10 PM

"Must not be an issue if they have dig so hard and twist facts to this degree."

If it's too complicated for YOU to understand and it doesn't affect YOU then it's not an issue.

Got it.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-25 01:16 PM

"Nobody wants people to needlessly die."

That's not even a true statement.

If that is the premise of your current argument then you have already lost.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-25 01:19 PM

I am just going to pop in here to respond to the doctors are at fault for not providing care argument.

See Zurawski vs Texas

reproductiverights.org

Doctors and patients sued the State of Texas in an attempt to force the Texas courts to provide more guidance on when abortions were permitted, i.e. provide guidance on when the medical conditions existed that met the law.

The courts refused to provide such direction/guidelines.

Texas AG followed up with a letter to hospitals threatening 99-year prison sentences for performing abortions.

So, no, this is NOT a matter of medical malpractice. This is the intended goal of the Texas abortion laws.

These are what are known as facts.

#18 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-25 01:29 PM

reproductiverights.org

Today the Texas Supreme Court denied claims brought by 20 women denied abortion care despite facing dangerous pregnancy complications and refused to clarify exceptions to the state's abortion bans.

Court's Ruling Ignores Pregnant Patients Filing the Case

In its ruling, the Court largely ignores the women denied abortion care who filed the case. The ruling states that abortions are not permitted in situations where the fetus has a lethal condition and will not survive, unless the pregnant patient also has a life-threatening condition. The Court also dismissed claims that the Texas law violates patients' constitutional rights to protect their lives and health.

While the Court clarified that exceptions can be made for life-threatening conditions such as PPROM, the Court refused to say when, in the course of a patient's deteriorating health situation, the exception would apply.

The Court also threw out an injunction issued by a Texas district judge in August 2023 that blocked the state's abortion bans and would have allowed abortions for severe pregnancy complications and fatal fetal diagnoses. The state had immediately appealed the judge's ruling, blocking it from taking effect mere hours after the opinion was issued.

"This ruling utterly fails to provide the clarity Texas doctors need for when they can provide abortion care to patients with serious pregnancy complications without risking being sent to prison. To add insult to injury, the opinion erases the women we represent as though their pain and experiences didn't exist or matter," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center.

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-25 01:34 PM

www.newsweek.com

Texas Threatens Doctors Over Court-Granted Abortion

Texas' attorney general has threatened to imprison any doctor who performs an abortion granted by one of the state's courts to remove an unviable fetus that could make the mother infertile if carried to term.

On Thursday, a judge in Travis County granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the implementation of Texas's abortion laws, after medical professionals discovered Kate Cox's 20-week pregnancy had a condition that caused deformities"giving it a minimal chance of survival and potentially threatening her reproductive health.

But later the same day, Ken Paxton released a statement in which he said the order "will not insulate hospitals, doctors, or anyone else, from civil and criminal liability for violating Texas' abortion laws," including first degree felony prosecutions and civil penalties in excess of $100,000.

So, even a court order allowing an abortion would not protect a doctor

You were told this would happen, it is happening and you blame the doctors.

#20 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-25 01:36 PM

Perhaps women need to start killing Texans.

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-11-25 02:14 PM

Jack Smith just dismissed his BS Jan 6 lawfare against Trump. So much winning.