A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three visits to Texas emergency rooms

[RandySF]

Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023.

Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before.

The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps. At the second, she screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.

Now on Crain’s third hospital visit, an obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise,” a nurse wrote, before moving her to intensive care.

By then, more than two hours after her arrival, Crain’s blood pressure had plummeted and a nurse had noted that her lips were “blue and dusky.” Her organs began failing. Hours later, she was dead.



https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/01/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala/

[hlthe2b]

1. I'd have to go to jail if I were presented with that teen. I could not let her die, even though I'm not blaming

those HCWs over the murderous legislators and their MAGA enablers--especially Trump. It is the latter who have caused this teen's death.

[joshdawg]

9. Not only trump, but......

cruz, abbott, paxton, patrick also have to go............I care not how.

[Emile]

2. The consequences when the Christian Taliban direct our government

will continue, we have to vote these bastards out!

[UpInArms]

35. I all them the

Talibornagain

[SleeplessinSoCal]

3. Strangely relieved it (she) was a Caucasian. n/t

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Editing via request to specify it was a she.

[mainer]

21. Both the girl and her mother were anti-choice

Maybe these cases will make white women wake up and realize the law affects them as well.

[DFW]

34. If they were both anti-choice

Then they were both Pro-What-happened-to-them.

They are always in favor of denying care to others until they, themselves, are affected, and then they realize too late just what they were advocating.

I wonder if the dead girl's mother is still as fervently anti-choice as she was. My bet is yes.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

40. They may think her death was God's will.

But that is part of this battle. If most of us want to have access to life saving procedures, we are more pro-life than the zealots. We apparently can't take the zealots off of the SCOTUS. But we can put into law "the choice to live".

[DFW]

43. My thinking exactly

They parade around with their "pro-life" signs, as if anyone were supposed to take that seriously. They support the death penalty, eat the flesh of animals they kill for that purpose, and gleefully watch other humans die because their own sadism can be justified as "God's will," which conveniently happens to be identical to their own every whim. But, sure, they're "pro-life."

[phylny]

45. I'm pro-life, they say, but we're okay having sex before we're married and having a baby without being married

either.

I'm pro-life, but I'm enraged my daughter is dead because if they had asked me, I'd tell them to save my daughter.

I have no room in my heart for people like this.

[Blue_Roses]

4. This is horrible

This should not be happening in the United States of America.

[LeftInTX]

5. Omg and they can't find a lawyer

How horrific!

What a nightmare this state is!

[Freddie]

6. First degree murder by the state

This should be the top story in every newscast in the country!
Ireland changed their laws after one woman died. No doubt there were many more over the years, but the publicity of her death outraged the public and the laws were changed. How many women in America will it take? Or are we really that expendable?

[mgardener]

11. Do you really think this one death

Will make Republicans change their minds?

How many school shootings has the US had how many kids have been killed?

They don't give a damn.
They really don't

[samnsara]

18. isnt this number 4?

..or is she one of the 3 that have died?

blood on trumps hands. THAT should be the message

[Freddie]

19. #4 that we know of

[Marthe48]

33. Add these victims to his Covid death count

traitor's crimes against humanity keep piling up.

[bottomofthehill]

28. Yes, she is white, it matters.

When black and brown women die in Texas it does not matter. White teens start to die, it matters. When a white mother of 3 dies, suddenly, it will really matter. It should not be this way, but it’s Texas so eventually, it will matter. When the white woman deaths become more common, the politicians will start to look for a fix. Not until then though.

[democrank]

7. Just exactly what does "pro-life" mean to the architects of these laws?

Dead women doesn’t seem very pro-life to me.

[Martin Eden]

12. It means they can assure their "pro-life" voters they all stand on the moral high ground

While they comfort the rich, neglect the poor, deny health care to the sick, demonize the stranger, and worship a completely amoral orange idol as a servant of God.

It is they, not liberals, who give Christians a bad name and turn off people who want nothing to do with such brazen hypocrisy.

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. May the pain and suffering endured by that poor woman

be visited ten fold upon those who decreed this to happen. Their places in hell are reserved and waiting.

I know I'm setting myself up for a stretch in purgatory for wishing this, but at least my stay will be temporary. They'll be dodging flaming pitchforks for a lot longer.

[TexasTowelie]

13. I'm not a lawyer,

but I don't believe that lament is legally actionable.

[mucifer]

14. The law values the fetus' life, not the mother's even if the fetus will soon die.

[dalton99a]

10. Republicans are loving it

[happy feet]

15. Sigh

Just, no words. Paxton and the SC 6 are the devil.
It seems to me the AMA or a class action of doctors could attempt to overrule the abortion law given it's too vague and in opposition to their Hippocratic oaths - they're literally letting women die in their care?

[Botany]

16. Texas women and any decent Texas man know what to do and that is vote BLUE

C-You Cruz. Fucking Christo Fascists.

[samnsara]

17. whats the count up to now? 4? why isnt there a public counter of maternal

deaths...this should be publicized every damned day.

2 more months of this shit

[mainer]

20. These women's deaths did not save a single fetus

By now, you'd think that the rightwing would realize that if the woman dies, the fetus dies too.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Dead women are just fine with republicans. It is a matter of control.

[Solly Mack]

23. Murder

[Coexist]

24. happy, SCOTUS, you evil f@*ks?

[Silver Gaia]

25. I am sick to read this. I cried. I am filled with rage and sadness...

I imagined myself as that poor mother SCREAMING for someone to help her daughter. O.M.G. They would have had to hold me back to keep me from killing someone with my bare hands. (I may be little, but I am FIERCE when my Mama Lion is awakened.) My heart goes out to that poor woman. Her teenage daughter died needlessly. FOR NO REASON! NONE.
WHY????? The fetus obviously wouldn't survive if she died, so what was the fricking point?

This has to stop. This is so wrong. It literally makes no sense in any possible way. This is CRUEL, inhumane, completely lacking in both compassion and logic. It is insane.

And I have to wonder, if this happened a YEAR ago, WHY are we just now hearing about it? Did it just take her family that long to heal enough to be able to tell their story?

OK. I have to stop. I need to sleep.

[Jmb 4 Harris-Walz]

29. I'm sure it's coming out now because we are so close to the election and more and more families are realizing

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if they don’t speak now, they may not ever be able too! The last one we learned about in TX was from 2021 before Roe v Wade was actually overturned, but TX law had kicked in for some reason I’m not aware of.

[Silver Gaia]

30. Yes, thank you. That makes sense. Now or never...

[bullimiami]

26. DEATH FUCKING PANELS. They are murdering pregnant women.

[surfered]

27. The State Motto is The Friendly State. Of course, that was before the Republicans took control.

Now it’s the most dangerous state for a pregnant woman.

[Happy Hoosier]

31. Trump killed her as surely as if he shot her on 5th Avenue. NT

[atreides1]

32. What if

Anti-abortion laws are intended to kill women of color and poor women?

[hatrack]

38. If so, they misfired in more ways than on in this case . . .

.

[UpInArms]

36. They should have to face a jury filled with the surviving family members

In states with abortion bans, such patients are sometimes bounced between hospitals like “hot potatoes,” with health care providers reluctant to participate in treatment that could attract a prosecutor, doctors told ProPublica. In some cases, medical teams are wasting precious time debating legalities and creating documentation, preparing for the possibility that they’ll need to explain their actions to a jury and judge.

[Deep State Witch]

37. I Can Just Hear The Rationalizations Coming

I can just hear the rationalizations coming from the Christofascists:

"Well, she should have kept an aspirin between her knees." "What she needed was Jesus." "This is her punishment for pre-marital sex." etcetera...

A young woman is dead, and they'll try to rationalize it away. They don't fucking care.

[kacekwl]

39. Come on media, every time

an immigrant commits a violent crime it's reported every day and used by Republicans to demonize. This is criminal by any standard and should be exposed by everyone.

[struggle4progress]

41. Miscarrying pro-life Christian wanted a baby, lost her life to sepsis

... Fails and Crain believed abortion was morally wrong. The teen could only support it in the context of rape or life-threatening illness, she used to tell her mother. They didn’t care whether the government banned it, just how their Christian faith guided their own actions.

When they discovered Crain was pregnant with a girl, the two talked endlessly about the little dresses they could buy, what kind of mother she would be. Crain landed on the name Lillian. Fails could not wait to meet her.

But when her daughter got sick, Fails expected that doctors had an obligation to do everything in their power to stave off a potentially deadly emergency, even if that meant losing Lillian. In her view, they were more concerned with checking the fetal heartbeat than attending to Crain ...

On the morning of their baby shower, Oct. 28, 2023, Crain woke with a headache. Her mom decorated the house with pink balloons and Crain laid out Halloween-themed platters. Soon, nausea set in. Crain started vomiting and was running a fever ...

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

[DET]

42. This is Murder

Texas is conflating a miscarriage with abortion. The fetus is or will soon be dead during a miscarriage. Do they think God will somehow perform a miracle and save it? These people don’t have the faintest understanding of female anatomy and gestation.

It is completely inexplicable to me how doctors are allowing patients to needlessly die. I’m astounded that there don’t seem to be organized lawsuits against this. I can’t imagine the horror that this girl’s mother must have experienced being forced to watch her daughter die for no reason - even if she is part of the problem. This is barbaric.

[BadGimp]

44. The Horror...

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