Another Texas Woman Has Died After Receiving Inadequate Treatment for a Miscarraige: ProPublica

Report: 3rd Texas woman dies as a result of state's strict abortion ban

Porsha Ngumezi, 35, died after experiencing a miscarriage in Houston.

A third woman died under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors reach for riskier miscarriage treatments

The case of Porsha Ngumezi, a 35-year-old woman from the Houston area, raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments

By Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages. ( ProPublica ) – Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her. Over the course of six hours on June 11, 2023, Porsha Ngumezi had bled so m…

The fifth incident in recent years - Doctors hesitated to proceed with a medical procedure that is also used in abortions because they are prohibited in the state

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.

Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see his wife. Over the course of six hours on June 11, 2023, Porsha Ngumezi had bled so much in the emergency department at Houston Methodist Sugar Land that she’d needed two transfusions. Three hours later, her heart stopped. The 35-year-old’s death was preventable, according to more than a dozen doctors w…

A 3rd Texas Woman Died Amid Confusion, Inaction Over Abortion Ban

On Monday, we learned of a fifth woman who died after experiencing pregnancy complications and being denied a life-saving emergency abortion procedure. Of these stories, all reported by ProPublica, Porsha Ngumezi is the third from Texas, which imposes a total abortion ban that threatens doctors with life in prison. A committee of medical experts told ProPublica that Ngumezi’s death was preventable if she had received a dilation and curettage or …