What: ProPublica found a third woman in Texas who died for lack of abortion care. Porsha Ngumezi had a miscarriage at 11 weeks, and bled so much in emergency department she had needed two blood transfusions. But the OBGYN on duty did not give her a routine procedure known as dilation and curettage or D+C, instead giving her slower acting, less effective medication. Prosha was 35 years old, and the mother of two young boys.

Key line: “Texas doctors told ProPublica the law has changed the way their colleagues see the procedure; some no longer consider it a first-line treatment, fearing legal repercussions or dissuaded by the extra legwork required to document the miscarriage and get hospital approval to carry out a D&C. This has occurred, ProPublica found, even in cases like Porsha’s where there isn’t a fetal heartbeat or the circumstances should fall under an exception in the law. Some doctors are transferring those patients to other hospitals, which delays their care, or they’re defaulting to treatments that aren’t the medical standard.”

Source: ProPublica // https://www.propublica.org/article/porsha-ngumezi-miscarriage-death-texas-abortion-ban