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

In the United States, ProPublica reported on another pregnant woman in Texas who died after being denied appropriate treatment. Health experts say it was clear that Porsha Ngumezi, 35, needed an emergency dilation and curettage, or D&C, after she began bleeding heavily in the 11th week of her pregnancy, but she was given a misoprostol pill instead. While many doctors in states with abortion bans have begun to avoid D&C, a common and life-saving procedure, Houston Methodist Hospital, Roe v. Even before the overturning of his case, Wade followed his own religion-based code of ethics that restricted abortion procedures. This is the fifth case ProPublica has reported in which pregnant women died after being denied the most effective emergency care in the wake of the state’s abortion bans. Three of those cases were in Texas. Porsha Ngumezi leaves behind her husband and two young sons.