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Janice Laz- Romo's avatar

So sad! She died after she had already had her baby shower of Sepsis🤬

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Ward From Cali's avatar

I see people here blaming doctors for not defying the law to save their patients. Gotta point out that by the time they're dying, they need more than just "a doctor." They need admission, tests and imaging, an operating room and a surgical team. A HOSPITAL. Doctors don't control that, fucking bean counters and lawyers do, and they'll shut it down regardless of any doctor's courageous defiance.

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kris peeters's avatar

I wonder how the mother and other family members of this now deceased teen and her baby feel about the state laws on abortion, now they have unfortunately experienced it's application and consequences first hand.

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Jen of Defense (War!)'s avatar

At her baby shower. AT HER BABY SHOWER. She obviously wanted to have this birth happen and they let her die because Ken Paxton is a fucking murdering psychopath.

Goddamn this fucking country.

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E2's avatar

She was young, against elective abortion, and wanting children. She would probably have had several babies, if she'd been allowed to live.

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KHolbekistan's avatar

This is premeditated murder.

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Atrele Kasha's avatar

Every time I even THINK of Paxton my skin crawls and I immediately want to hurt something.

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Mary  Murray's avatar

😡😡😡😡😡

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Devon Williams's avatar

I want to call this a karmic punishment so badly but I cannot.

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beb's avatar

Dickens once had one of his characters said, "If this is the Law then The Law is an ass." (I think I've got that quote right.) Every member of the Texas government who voted for or signed into law that bill should be charged with willful murder. They have blood on their hands.

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Michele Pfannenstiel DVM's avatar

This is cold but...this is what it looks like to be a victim of their own ideology. This js the find out phase.

I mean...it ain't gonna change fuck all. I mean look at TN and their shooting at one of their segregation schools. Nothing changed.

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Karen Scofield's avatar

This is Beyond the Beyonds, Already ! The Harris administration will make short work over turning these States Barbaric Laws, I guarantee it ! Vote Blue Up and Down the Ballot and Thank You, Robyn, for your work on this today. Will reStack ASAP 💯👍💙🌊🌊

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Morbidly Curious Wine's avatar

That poor child. Yes, I know she was legally an adult, but to her mother and every mother, she was a child. A child who died unnecessarily because forced birthers must have their human sacrifices to appease their own need in the name of their invisible sky daddy to control the lives and now often deaths of women and girls. Fuck them. I can't think of anything bad and painful enough to have happen to them.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

"Unless, of course, their conscience tells them to do what is necessary save a dying pregnant woman, "

This. Stop it, Doctors....stand up for your patients.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Keep in mind that what this woman needed at the end when she was clearly dying was not just a doctor, but an entire operating room and its staff. Which ain't gonna happen if management says no. It's not the doctors, it's the bosses.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Women who are sent away UNMONITORED can definitely blame the Doctors. They could admit her on a diagnosis of sepsis. Treatment would have prevented her death.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

That's bad, but again, doctors, working doctors, don't actually run hospitals, the suits do. Some of them have M.D.s but don't actually treat patients and stopped being anything but a fully-corrupted management drone years ago. But they can sign off on anything just like a real doc.

Yeah, be pissed about them. They're scum. But don't blame working OB/GYN's for abandoning their paths when it's management that makes lifesaving treatments impossible to administer even if the docs are willing to risk legal prosecution to save a life. They just don't have the power to do it. That's why so many are quitting.

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Let me sum up's avatar

You & I have discussed this before - I can't believe there isn't a SINGLE doc in an abortion ban state willing to risk imprisonment. There HAS to be organizing going on SOMEWHERE w a doc who wants to follow their hippocratc oath as a test case..doesn't there?

Dammit.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

I saw a Pediatrician risking prison to continue treating her Trans patients.

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Let me sum up's avatar

I obvs don't wish prison on anyone, but I just cannot fathom having a septic patient and not taking whatever actions are necessary to save her life. JFC.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

When I worked with Doctors I knew some who would...but not all....

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Dtss's avatar

How fucking INFURIATING!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤯🤯🤯 How many of us have to DIE!!!!

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Sean McCoy Writes's avatar

This bullshit makes me cross-eyed mad! I don't know if that is a saying, but I can't think of any better way to describe my reaction.

These Ghouls in the Texas GOP are disgusting and dangerous beyond words.

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Lefty Wright's avatar

Pretty soon even wives of rich white televangelists from mega churches in Texas will have trouble finding pregnancy care in state. Fortunately their husband's jet can take them to California for treatment. They may even find room on the plane for wives of some big donors or deacons.

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