#JosseliBarnica is 1 of ≥2 #Texas women who…lost their lives after doctors delayed treating #miscarriages, which fall into a gray area under the state’s strict #abortion #laws that prohibit doctors from ending the #heartbeat of a #fetus.

Neither wanted an abortion, but that didn’t matter. Though proponents insist the laws protect both the life of the fetus & the person carrying it, in practice, #doctors have hesitated to provide care under threat of #prosecution, #prison & professional ruin.

For 40 hrs, the anguished 28-yr-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.

3 days after she delivered, #JosseliBarnica died of an infection.

At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a #deadly infection, more than a dozen #medical experts told ProPublica.

But when #JosseliBarnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told her: “They had to wait until there was no #heartbeat,” he told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a #crime to give her an #abortion.”

#JosseliBarnica grieved the news as she lay in a #Texas hospital bed on Sept 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving her daughter would not survive this #pregnancy.

The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 wks #pregnant & a #miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records.

@realTuckFrumper I strongly believe that this tragic death of #JosseliBarnica will help #Allred to upset #Cruz. You heard it here first!