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Eighteen-year-old Nevaeh Crain died from sepsis after Texas’s abortion ban delayed critical medical intervention during her pregnancy complications.

Despite multiple ER visits and severe symptoms, doctors waited to confirm fetal demise before acting due to the state’s restrictive laws. Crain endured intense pain and deteriorating health over multiple hospital visits, ultimately suffering a miscarriage and passing away from internal bleeding.

Medical experts believe timely intervention could have saved her. Her mother, Candace Fails, is pursuing legal accountability but faces significant legal hurdles under Texas’s stringent emergency care standards.

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[–] TheFin@leminal.space 2 points 1 hour ago

well, the Donald was going to help her whether she wanted him to or not

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

To everyone saying maybe now they will do something, this happened a year ago, and the mother can't even find legal representation to take the case, so probably not.

Welcome back to the Middle Ages...

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A reminder that this issue is on the ballot today.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I just having this burning feeling that these people support republicans.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

Don't worry, they'll get right on this just like how Columbine lead to Gun Control and Covid-19 lead to Single Payer

sigh

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 hours ago

The forced birther republicans strike again.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I do wonder if she's white enough for Republicans to care.

[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

She's a woman, so... no.

[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Republicans are to blame for this. The republican party should be charged with the murder of a woman and baby.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

All the people involved in MURDERING this poor girl (in order of degrees of separation):

  • The Texan legislators that banned abortion
  • The supreme court justices that overturned Roe v Wade
  • Donald Trump, for packing the supreme court and enabling them to overturn Roe v Wade
  • Every American voter who knew exactly what they were voting for
[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 61 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Well its a white person this time, so maybe people will actually give a shit

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago

A white woman, don’t get your hopes up.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago

No, you don't understand.

This was clearly an unintended pregnancy because she was a whore, the proof is: she died.

You know how the body has ways of shutting that down if it's rape?

The converse is also true, God knows it was sin and judged her accordingly. I mean, be logical here: he's all powerful, what else could have happened?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 42 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This is considered a human sacrifice by the GOP. They are intentionally letting women die. I don't know what dark god they pray too but this needs to stop.

Vote them to oblivion!

[–] mtpender@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

GOP: "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!"

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 2 hours ago

I suspect Trump is a gene stealer cultist or a servant of gurgle more than Korne.

[–] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 65 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sepsis is no joke!

Story time: Awhile back my youngest daughter (7 at the time) got pneumonia and it landed her in the hospital. Unfortunately the bacteria causing the pneumonia got into her blood, which is what sepsis is, an infection in the blood. Another unfortunate occurrence was that the doctor's did not know what was happening, so her sepsis went untreated and she went into septic shock.

Septic shock is when your body basically says "we're really fucking sick so we're taking all the blood out of our limbs (lowering blood pressure dramatically), to help protect the vital organs, so we have some chance at surviving this". So it goes without saying that septic shock is not a very good sign, and intense critical care is required to survive it.

Once the doctors figured out what was actually happening they had us flown to the PICU at the children's hospital in the city.

When we arrived at the new PICU they immediately put her in a medically induced coma, then it was pure madness for the next 48 hours. Literally round the clock care. So many doctors, nurses, specialist coming in and out at all hours of the day and night.

The doctors recommended we sign a DNR because it got that close at times. We signed it because we couldn't bare the thought of her last moments being horribly painful when she had been through so much already. Plus if she did survive the cardiac arrest it would likely just repeat itself because she still has a ranging infection killing her. Those were some really scary days. I'm not a religious man but I can certainly see how religion would be comforting to folks in those moments.

Two weeks later my daughter was brought out of her medically induced coma. She had survived septic shock, was no longer septic, but she still had pneumonia and was requiring a ventilator to breathe. The entire stay took 4 months between the PICU and the Rehabilitation Hospital.

Unfortunately the tissue damage to her hands and feet, due to her body pulling the blood into her torso, was so significant she ended up having both feet and her right hand amputated. She lost the very tips of her thumb, pointer finger, and middle finger on her left hand, other than missing those fingertips the left hand was fine, thank goodness for that.

So yeah. Sepsis is no joke. See a doctor if you are feeling really sick or if you are sick for more than a few days. Take all of the antibiotics they give you, and monitor your vitals (temps, respiratory rate, heart rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure) as best you can with what you have available at home. If something isn't right call your doctor or go to the ER.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 16 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I am absolutely awestruck by the amount of bravery and critical thinking under stress that it must have taken to understand that you needed to sign a DNR for your 7 year old. Most parents in your situation would barely be able to add up 2+2, let alone comprehend enough of what the doctor was saying to make that kind of decision.

I'm also so happy for all of you that you wound up not needing that DNR. I hope she's adapting well to her life with those limitations, but often children that age have enough neuroplasticity to work it out. She's also certainly got parents who know how to put their own emotions aside and make sure she gets the care she needs, so under the circumstances she's got a lot going for her. <3

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 62 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

She was murdered by republicans, and the murder weapon was their shit legislation

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 4 hours ago

But, they get to continue controlling women, so her sacrifice was worth it (they'll decide).

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All right, Texan Republicans. You have your moderately attractive blond white girl sacrifice to rally behind. You can do something about this now.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Only if the father was also white and blond. If the baby was "mixed" out could eventually claim to be Indian or Black....

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 59 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Tomorrow (November 5th) is Election Day. Go vote. And get informed and vote in every election, local, State, and Federal thereafter. If you don’t, this will continue to happen. The States have this power only because we, the citizens of those States gave it to them, or worse yet, said nothing as they took it for themselves.

If you don’t vote, then don’t go complaining later if the result isn’t what you want.

[–] pinkystew@reddthat.com 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

What if we vote and the problem continues? What if voting gives us the illusion of control?

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

TLDR: Vote anyways, and make your voice heard.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, > or to the people. - US Constitution, 10th Amendment

The way that the US is setup, actual power and authority, does not actually exist at the Federal level. Not really. Not over you as an individual. And your individual vote at the Federal level will not really move the needle.

The actual authority and power over your life exists at the State and local levels. And this is where your vote can actually make a real difference as well, because elections at these levels are often decided by mere hundreds of votes. Your local elections are often decided by mere 10's of votes.

The most powerful of all, however, are the local school boards, which are often elected positions. However, decisions made by school boards don't make changes to your community over night, however. It takes years for the children they teach to grow up and begin exerting their control over the system.

What if we vote and the problem continues?

That will happen. I'm sorry that's not the answer you want. It is difficult to make large changes to society or governments in a hurry. You can think of society and governments like large boulders. The larger the society or government, the larger the boulder.

Newton's First Law of Motion, also known as the Law of Inertia, states that an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. This law, originally formulated by Galileo, is fundamental to understanding motion and forces.

A handful of people might move that boulder slowly over time, more people though, can move that boulder more quickly. And of course, a much faster or larger boulder could always strike it and move it quickly, though not necessarily predicably.

What if voting gives us the illusion of control?

Sticking with the physics frame of reference, as an individual person, you have all the control you could ever want. You just don't have enough power or "force" to make much happen at larger scales. The physics frame of reference breaks down somewhat, though, as a single voice, well spoken and well presented, at the right time, can not only move all the smaller pebbles (people) and the boulder (society or governments), but an entire damned mountain and can move it precisely.

[–] pinkystew@reddthat.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Excellent and thoughtful response

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So what's your solution? Or should we just shrug and start reporting each other for "leftist behavior" to the secret police?

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

There needs to be a cultural change.

Unfortunately, one person or even the minority cannot do this.

Until more people actually want to solve these problems, these problems won't get solved. Wow.

It's not a turnout issue. US "democracy" is fundamentally broken and favors those already in power. It's important for those in power that gridlock issues such as abortion and gun control never get solved yet remain the focal point of elections to distract from the ever-growing disparity in wealth.

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