A Texas The family is hurting the loss of Porsha Ngumezi, a 35 -year -old woman who died by the end of 2024 after not obtaining proper care because of the prohibitions of abortion and the regulations that government officials have applied in recent years.
According to CBS NewsHope Nguumezi breaks by not one, but two losses within his growing family unit after his wife Porsha died after a visit to the Emergency Room of Methodist Sugar Land in Houston for an involuntary abortion when he had 11 weeks pregnant.
“I blame doctors, blame the hospital and blame the state of Texas,” Hope told The News Outlet this month.
What caused the death of Porsha Nguumezi?
On June 11, 2023, Porsha did not receive dilation and a healing procedure that is often performed to completely delete the uterus after a loss of pregnancy and an abortion made during the first quarter, by Sufficiently. The operation was something that needed to be urgently done due to the strong bleeding that the mother supported more than six hours in the emergency room. It lost so much blood that two blood transfusions were needed.
The procedure has become a concern between doctors because they fear possible legal repercussions according to state laws. Hope is convinced that this fear lastly cost his wife his life, as his condition deteriorated until he suffered a cardiac arrest and died.
“It simply seemed to me that the doctor turned his back on us. You know,” I don’t want to go to jail. I do not want to lose my license or make me fined, so the best course is to protect -me, “said Nguumezi, reported CBS News.
For Propblica, she is the third woman in Texas to die under the ban.
What is the ban on Texas abortion?
In 2021, Governor Greg Abbott signed a Texas bill, suggested calling the law of heartbeat, which prohibits most abortions in the State until six weeks, by The Texas Tribune. The only exception to the sentence is whether the life of a pregnant woman is in danger or faces a serious risk. Unfortunately, there were no specifications described to help determine what makes a pregnancy harmful, according to doctors according to news taking.
“I feel that the law is very reckless … very dangerous,” said Hope Nguumezi on the law.
According to the Institute of Policy of nests, he stated that the maternal mortality rate, the death of a woman within 42 days after the pregnancy is over, in Texas can increase due to recent abortion restrictions, according to CBS News. Maternal deaths in the state jumped by 56% between 2019 and 2022, which is significantly higher than the national increase of 11% over the same period of time.
The abortion restrictions were sponsored mainly by Texas State Senator Bryan Hughes, the response to doctors’ concerns for possible consequences was: “Sorry.
Hughes also mentioned that legislators are reviewing the ways of clarifying the legislation, although there have been no changes. Although a plan may be underway to fix the fatal lagoons within the heartbeat act, Hope is trying to navigate to advance as a single father of two boys.
“We are not supposed to worry, the man if I have a complication, will I lose my life? The doctor would give me the right care?” Said Ngumezi.
