The liberal media continues to exploit the tragic and unfortunately deaths of pregnant women patients to falsely claim abortion bans are killing women.
The fact is that patients die every day because of medical malpractice or shoddy medical care. And when a woman is pregnant, that is entirely unrelated to an abortion ban that stops killing babies.
But the liberal media has an abortion agenda, and they have no problem exploiting the preventable deaths f pregnant women to push their pro-abortion cause – because legalizing abortion is more important that advocating for good, legitimate health care for women.
Porsha Ngumezi is the latest pregnant woman to have died in the state of Texas. Liberal media headlines are falsely claiming she’s the third woman to have died from the Texas abortion ban. The truth is none have died.
Here’s what happened in the case of Porsha Ngumezi.
Ngumezi miscarried at 11 weeks. But her doctor, Dr. Andrew Davis, doesn’t see her until 7 hours later and gives her misoprostol instead of a normal D&C procedure that is commonly used to remove the baby’s body after a miscarriage. After Ngumezi died, Davis’ notes contradict those from nurses and claimed she had minimal bleeding.
It was clear Porsha needed an emergency D&C,medical experts have said regarding her case. That Davis did not do one led to her death — not the Texas abortion ban.
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Texas abortion law places no restrictions on medical providers in the treatment of a miscarriage. Texas abortion law allows intervention in medical emergencies, making it very clear that the abortion ban did absolutely nothing to prevent doctors and nurses from properly treating Ngumezi.
Texas abortion law explicitly states that removing embryonic or fetal remains after a miscarriage is not legally an abortion, because abortion is done with the sole intent of killing the baby, not treating a pregnant woman whose baby died. Texas abortion law applies equally to drugs or medications as it does to procedures or surgical interventions.
Dr. Ingrid Skop, who heads AAPLOG, an association of pro-life OBGYNs, provided her expert commentary on the case.
She complained that liberal media laws falsely claiming the Texas abortion ban killed Hgumezi are hurting women because they “spread misinformation about the law and undermine medical best practices.”
“Nothing in Texas law, which specifically exempts ‘removal of a dead, unborn child’ prevented Porsha’s doctors from providing her – or any woman suffering from a miscarriage– with a D&C,” Skop explained. “Her physician’s failure to provide the medically necessary intervention, as she bled so heavily that she required a transfusion, reflects very poor-quality care, possibly medical malpractice.”
“Media misinformation has deadly consequences. Doctors need to know that under every pro-life law, including Texas’s, physicians can intervene to save women’s lives in pregnancy emergencies,” the OBGYN adds. “Leveraging women’s suffering to promote a dishonest and harmful agenda has become standard practice for the abortion lobby and for the pro-abortion media – which routinely quotes abortionists as “medical experts” without disclosing their ties to the abortion industry.”
“Texas women deserve better than this fearmongering, and Texas medical organizations and hospitals should make sure every physician understands their duty to provide lifesaving care,” she concluded.
