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At Least 3 Pregnant Texas Women Died After Being Denied Proper Care Since Abortion Ban

HeadlineNov 26, 2024

ProPublica has reported on another pregnant woman in Texas who died after she was denied appropriate treatment. Health providers say it’s clear 35-year-old Porsha Ngumezi needed emergency dilation and curettage, or D&C, after she started bleeding heavily at 11 weeks pregnant, but was instead given the pill misoprostol. While many doctors in states with abortion bans have started avoiding D&C — a common and lifesaving procedure — the Houston Methodist Hospital also abides by its own religion-based ethics guidelines that restricted abortion procedures even before Roe v. Wade was overturned. It’s the fifth case ProPublica has reported in which pregnant women died after being refused the most effective emergency care following state abortion bans. Three of those cases were in Texas. Porsha Ngumezi leaves behind her husband and two young sons.

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