Texas Teen Suffering Miscarriage Dies Days After Baby Shower due to Abortion Ban as Mom Begs Doctors to 'Do Something'

• Nevaeh Crain was six months pregnant when she contracted sepsis while having a miscarriage
• The 18-year-old went to the emergency room three times with severe symptoms, and the doctors had to “confirm the death of the fetus” before the intervention.
• She died a few hours later in the intensive care unit

A Texas teenager has died after the state’s abortion ban denied her life-saving medical treatment while she was suffering from pregnancy complications.

On October 28, 2023, the day her child was born, Nevaeh Crain woke up with a headache. Soon after, the 18-year-old, who was six months pregnant, developed a fever followed by nausea and vomiting. She struggled with her family and around 3 pm her family decided to take her to the emergency room. ProPublica reports.

Crain’s boyfriend Randall Broussard drove her to a nearby hospital where they sat in the waiting room for four hours. Staff reportedly gave her a plastic container because she continued to vomit while waiting.

After testing, Crain was diagnosed with strep throat. In addition to vomiting, the teenager also experienced abdominal pain, but her pregnancy was not evaluated. She was discharged and prescribed antibiotics.

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In the middle of the night, Crain woke her mother, Candace Fails, complaining of severe stomach pains, the paper said. Fails took his daughter to another hospital, where a gynecologist reported that she had a temperature of 102.8 and a high pulse. She was showing signs of sepsis.

Sepsis is “a serious condition in which the body reacts improperly to an infection,” according to the Mayo Clinic. It can lead to septic shock and death. In a typical year, at least 1.7 million adults in the US develop sepsis, and nearly 270,000 die from the infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Crain received intravenous fluids and antibiotics for two hours, but her condition continued to deteriorate. In addition to streptococcus, she also had a urinary tract infection. However, a nurse checked her baby for a heartbeat so she was able to be discharged from the hospital with more antibiotics.

“That’s bulls—,” Fails said, toward the exit, as Crain had to be wheeled home in a wheelchair because she couldn’t walk.

The next morning, Crain cried in pain to her family, and by 9 a.m. she was back at the hospital after she began experiencing severe bleeding. She had a miscarriage.

Nursing staff gave Crain IV antibiotics, and the on-call OB-GYN also reported that she was unable to find a fetal heartbeat at the time. Fails told the newspaper that half an hour later, she noticed her daughter’s thighs were covered in blood.

“Do something,” Fails begged the doctors.

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Texas woman nearly lost her life after doctors couldn’t legally perform an abortion: ‘Their hands were tied’

Texas’ near total ban on abortion meant doctors could do nothing to remove a nonviable fetus unless Crain’s life was in danger. She would either have to get sick enough for the doctors to intervene, or she would abort herself.

“Pretty consistently, people say, ‘Until we’re absolutely sure this isn’t a normal pregnancy, there’s nothing we can do, because it could be argued we’ve had an abortion,'” Dr. Tony Ogburn, MD, a surgeon-gynecologist in San Antonio, said. is for ProPublica.

Eventually, doctors performed a second ultrasound to “confirm fetal death” more than two hours after Crain arrived at the hospital. At that point, Crain was unable to sign consent forms due to “extreme pain,” so Fails quickly signed a release to allow her daughter to undergo an “unplanned dilation and curettage” or an “unplanned C-section.”

However, doctors have concluded that it is too dangerous to perform the procedure now, according to the medical documentation obtained by the outlet. They suspected she was bleeding internally after developing a dangerous complication of sepsis called disseminated intravascular coagulation.

Fails recalled her daughter sitting in a hospital bed with black blood pouring from her mouth and nostrils, telling her, “You’re strong, Nevaeh. God made us strong.”

Crain died a few hours later in the intensive care unit.

ProPublica reviewed more than 800 pages of Crain’s medical records and consulted with medical experts, who said the teenager may have survived if she had received proper care.

After her death, Fails sought legal action to hold the hospitals accountable. However, under Texas law, EMS cases require plaintiffs to prove “willful and wanton negligence” by hospitals, and she reportedly couldn’t find a lawyer to take on her case.

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