Black Mother Bleeds To Death From Miscarriage Due To Texas Abortion Ban

Photo: Getty Images Another woman has died at the hands of Roe v. Wade’s overturn. According to ProPublica, 35-year-old Porsha Ngumezi of Texas was denied proper medical care for a miscarriage due to her state’s strict abortion ban. Ngumezi, a mother of two, suffered a miscarriage at 11 weeks on June 11, 2023 and experienced heavy bleeding. Nurses said Ngumezi was “passing large clots the size of grapefruit.” Due to the excess bleeding, Ngumezi had two blood transfusions in the emergency room at Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital. Ngumezi’s mother-in-law, a former physician, advised her to get a dilation and curettage (D&C), a procedure where a curette is used to scrape the uterine lining, which removes the baby from inside the uterus. D&Cs are performed during the first trimester for miscarriages and abortions. However, Ngumezi’s doctor said it was “routine” for the hospital to treat the miscarriage with a drug called misoprostol. “The mindset I had that day was, ‘They’re the experts, right?’ I know they have seen miscarriages many times, so they are well equipped to know what to do,” Ngumezi’s husband, Hope, said. Ngumezi died three hours after receiving the drug. According to the medical examiner, Ngumezi’s cause...