Savita, a beautiful, 31 year-old dentist in Ireland was thrilled to be pregnant with her first baby. All was going blissfully well in her pregnancy until at 17 weeks she developed severe back pain.
Sadly, she had begun to miscarry but when her body didn’t expel the fetus, doctors refused to give her an abortion – it was against the law.
Despite pleas from Savita and her husband as she grew sicker from an infection in her uterus which spread throughout her body, the hospital refused to terminate her unviable pregnancy.
She died just days later from a “septic miscarriage”. This is exactly the type of scenario that Dr. Danielle Jones , a board certified OBGYN based in Austin, warns will happen to women in Texas, now that Texas’s draconian
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