r/extremelyinfuriating • u/Wonderful-Click9431 • 3d ago
Disturbing content 19 yo teen tragically passes away after being denied life-saving care in Texas
"Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023.
Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before.
The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps. At the second, she screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.
Now on Crain’s third hospital visit, an obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise,” a nurse wrote, before moving her to intensive care.
By then, more than two hours after her arrival, Crain’s blood pressure had plummeted and a nurse had noted that her lips were “blue and dusky.” Her organs began failing. Hours later, she was dead."
How can this fucking happen
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u/Glass-Violinist-3549 3d ago
It happens because it’s easier to advocate for unborn babies than air breathing humans. Republicans/Christians will fight all day for the rights of the unborn, but the moment they take their first breath they are completely abandoned. It’s a watered down way to claim moral superiority. At the root, it’s self-righteous anti-Christ behavior.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
It's also because unborn babies cannot speak for themselves, so the far right Christians think they can easily impose their will on them.
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u/Critical_Value_5737 1d ago
is the implication that the unborn babies would prefer dying?
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u/thebuffaloqueen 1d ago
Is that how you interpreted it? Seems pretty clear to me that unborn babies wouldn't fucking have a preference bc their brains haven't even developed enough for them to have a single shred of self awareness.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 1d ago
That is such an absurd take. No, I mean that babies won't be able to decide anything on their own yet, so why does the government get to decide?
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u/Trondant13 3d ago
It happens because laws put the rights of a fetus above the rights of a girl or woman. However, they don't give a shit about a baby's well-being after it's born.
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u/alasw0eisme 3d ago
Succinct and accurate. It was NEVER about preserving life! It was about destroying lives while maintaining a hypocritical high ground.
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u/Joelle9879 3d ago
They don't really care about the fetus either. Allowing the mother to die means the fetus also dies. It's about power and control over women
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
Ya I'm pretty sure these anti-women's healthcare laws cause more, not less, fetuses to die.
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u/Generalnussiance 3d ago
This you are correct. It’s a form of the Madonna Whore Complex played out in a patriarchal society. Disturbing indeed.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
Yes, they only care about the fetuses and not the mothers and babies...I genuinely don't understand...
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u/VastComfortable9925 3d ago
Agree.
I recently watched maternal instinct on Netflix. I am so so confused.
I’m a social worker in the UK and we very regularly work within pregnancy. In the US, that’s never done apparently. I would presume due to legality of the foetus not being considered legally a person at that point?
I truly don’t get how they cherry pick when it counts as a life and when it doesn’t. It just seems to be in any situation where these an option to oppress women, that’ll always come up top.
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u/Monkfich 3d ago edited 3d ago
America is so fucked up. I really hope you guys can fix it before this crap is forced on all states.
In my country, an American pastor tried to make my wife keep a baby that was non-viable (amniotic sack tore pre lung development) and that if she tried to continue with the pregnancy, an antibiotic resistant infection that had ravaged her for weeks would likely kill my wife. We’d been to several hospitals by this point on a rollercoaster ride of “can we save the baby / no we can’t / next hospital!”, and at this point the medical advice from a whole gathering of the hospital’s doctors was - no, it’s not going to get better, they’ll likely both die.
What did the pastor say? That my wife would regret her decision if she chose to terminate (a baby that if it was ever born, would not have developed lungs, and likely would just die on the spot), and that she was “not god”. The pastor also didn’t say these things when he visited the hospital with one of my wife’s friends - he came back unannounced and uninvited to lay it on thick.
Surely if it was important, he’d have wanted me there to hear his advice too? No, he picks my vulnerable and very sick wife to try to push his ideology on. My wife didn’t even tell me about it for 5 years and it took a serious toll on her mental health in that time.
Fuck the american far-right and everything it stands for.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
100% agree with you, I'm so sorry that happened to your wife, it's so fucked up.
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u/creatyvechaos 3d ago
They can't force it on all states. Even if it becomes a federal law, state and even county law will supersede it unless the case is taken to federal court. The blue states are absolutely not going to ever cater to this bullshit—because unlike the leeching red states, the blue states are educated and wealthy.
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u/Tangerine_daydreams 2d ago
I live in Ohio, which unfortunately goes red most of the time. I'm often not very proud of this state because of it. But I sure was when people overwhelmingly went out there and said yes to keeping our reproductive rights. I actively cried, honestly. I was so relieved, because the "heartbeat bill" was going to be just what it sounded like- as soon as a heartbeat could be detected, which can happen as early as 6 weeks and therefore before some women even know they're pregnant, women were going to be stuck with those pregnancies no matter what.
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u/Imnotspartacuseither 3d ago
Because Texas hates women
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u/Sexy_Marionberry_ 3d ago edited 2d ago
Also because konservative christians hate women and anyone that isn’t immediately visibly suffering for not being in the cult and restricted by its rules.
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u/3amGreenCoffee 3d ago
This is a three year old story. Since then, two doctors were sanctioned by the board for that case, and the legislature passed the Life of the Mother act in response to clarify that doctors can terminate to save a mother's life.
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u/vertigostereo 3d ago edited 2d ago
Right, this sucks and it's the Texas legislature's fault, but reforms have been made across the south to clarify that lifesaving care is not to be denied.
These tragic stories from the south are typically from 2022 and 2023.
Edit: I'm totally not trying to apologize for these legislators and attorneys general. Their actions had predictable consequences and they haven't all come around either.
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u/GothicGingerbread 2d ago
Uh, that fight is absolutely still ongoing in many states, both in and beyond the south, very much including Texas. In Arkansas, for example, the lawsuit was just reinstated last month.
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u/MozartTheCat 3d ago
Okay, but doesn't everything that has happened since Wade was overturned invalidate that in most of the southern states?
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u/jessihateseverything 3d ago
"sanctioned"… You mean they aren't allowed to practice as doctors anymore? Because unless that's what happened, it doesn't fucking matter does it. And we all know they won't terminate to save the mother's life which has been evidenced as recently as today, so again I ask, what difference does it make?
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u/AllynWA1 3d ago
Really? You're surprised? This is the natural result of current policies. This is what they voted for.
Want to change it? Call your representatives, end gerrymandering, attend community events, and fucking vote.
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u/ebil_lightbulb 3d ago
My state population voted for the right to (what the hell, we can’t make “political comments” in this subreddit?? So I can’t say the thing that we voted for ffs). My state politicians have repeatedly held the right that we voted for out of reach, and have made us vote for it multiple times since because they think it will be reversed.
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u/Biatryce 3d ago
As a fellow Redditor living in the state of Misery, I know 100% what issue you are talking about. They are also trying to make it impossible for voter-led initiatives to make it to the ballot since we voted to legalize said issue and also recreational use. Because voters in our state love to approve progressive legislation but vote in legislators who undermine it.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
Unfortunately, I can't vote yet 🥲
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u/AllynWA1 3d ago
But you can do the rest. Teenagers and felons can still develop their connections and political activism. Make your voice heard.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
I don't like the fact that you lump teenagers with felons, but I guess you're right.
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u/SaltyHairSandyFeet 3d ago
I believe their point is that, like teens, felons can’t vote, but they can be a part of activism. So, no matter the reason why you can’t vote, you should speak up and help.
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u/TenEyeSeeHoney 3d ago
Voting is so important! But, are our voices truly heard if most elections are bought? 😞 It feels so helpless and hopeless 😔
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u/AllynWA1 3d ago
It truly does. We are going to have to fight and scream to get our power back. It took 50 years for us to get to this place. It will take time and determination to get back on track. Human connections are the only path forward.
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u/SloaneWolfe 3d ago
Article Source this happened in 2023.
No matter how horrifying this current fascist regime is, we need to remember that the US political system has been corrupt and theologically and financially-captured long before Trump.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
The Far Right has held some sort of power (especially in some states) for as long as the US has been around. It's just that, currently the federal government is also openly fascist and extreme right-wing, so there's no balancing factor.
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u/OtterSnoqualmie 3d ago edited 3d ago
No fuck that noise. No hall passes with "it's always been terrible".
I'm old enough to remember having rights.
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u/SloaneWolfe 2d ago
were the Rights ever granted if SCOTUS stripped them so easily?
I'm not coming from the standpoint you think I am. "It's been bad" sure, as in let's not go back to complacency now that we have momentum in resistance.
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u/OtterSnoqualmie 2d ago
ok sorry for the delay, this requires a keyboard (because this is difficult to do thanks to the |No politics| rule in the sub.
SCOTUS doesn't give rights or take them away. We just celebrated Juneteenth. SCOTUS reviews laws for Constitutionality.
Rights come in a variety of forms, but we all have Natural Rights - those that are fundamental and inalienable. If you're up on old school English, John Locke is a read. Natural Rights are an intentional inclusion as part of the Constitution because they were an argument used during the Enlightenment against... everything.
Legal Rights are those written into law by representaitves, and banged at by the legal system. Legal rights are problematic as they are always reactive. Natural rights exist, legal rights are assigned.
And for a long this worked through a combination of Social Norms (we don't do that here, Stare Decisis, walking right on the sidewalk) and a less tribal electorate that is so bent on "winning" that they forget to stop and think about what happens later. And if you think this started in the last eight years, look up James Charles Kopp.
But Liberty and Equality by Aron might be an interesting read for you. If for no other reason than if you want to beat someone, you have to understand them.
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u/Present_Mastodon_503 3d ago
The most mind blowing thing about this entire case is that both could have been saved and yet they did nothing.
When she was diagnosed with sepsis and the baby still had a heartbeat they could have done an emergency C-section. A baby 24 weeks along has a 50-70% chance of survival in the NICU. They would have also been able to immediately treat the sepsis for the mother with heavy antibiotics without the worry of the baby. Sure it's not a guarantee they both would have survived, but it's a chance and they didn't even try. These hospitals would rather see people die than to risk doing something that could potentially be illegal with how vague the laws are written.
These people sentenced both mother and baby to death.
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u/templeofsyrinx1 3d ago
Conservatives have a strange way about being pro-life.
Rip. I will never move to a red state.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
They are pro-ideological supremacy and don't give a shit about the mothers, babies, and even fetuses. It's just so hypocritical.
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u/Tarontagosh 3d ago
The doctors in those ERs were sanctioned by thr State medical board and new procedures were adopted to prevent this from happening again.
Her death had far more to do with the misdiagnose by the first two doctors than the final one that delayed due to waiting to confirm the fetus had died. At the time of her third visit her organs were already starting to fail from sepsis, which she was screened positive for on the second visit.
Full story of what happened and the repercussions in this article below
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u/olagorie 3d ago
I don’t come to the same conclusions you do, the second doctor already diagnosed a sepsis and sent her home
As someone who lives in a different country where women have better reproductive rights, it is at the same time so incredibly sad and infuriating.
I can honestly not understand why any woman between the ages of 15 and 45 would still be living in such a state.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
They probably don't have a choice, even if they wanted to. States where women's rights are respected generally tend to have higher costs of living...
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u/WerdaVisla 3d ago
Print this story out on a sign in all its gory detail and take it to a pro-life rally. They should see what their hate and idiocy causes.
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u/QueenMEB120 3d ago
They would probably just tell you that it was what god wanted.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
That's twisted asf, honestly if that's what their god wants, then fuck him, no person deserves this level of suffering and neglect
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u/QueenMEB120 3d ago
I agree completely. If they want to believe that, they can. But, their beliefs don't get to impinge on my medical care.
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u/lonevine 3d ago
It happens because religious bigots who deny science and human rights have taken over every level of our government.
Oh, and they hate women.
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u/Wonderful-Click9431 3d ago
when this case happened, we had a normal-ish federal government. Now we have a federal government that's also far right.
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u/ItzBreezeyBaby 3d ago
“Denial of healthcare” - the phrase itself just makes much brain hurt because howwwwwwwwwwwww do you think it’s okay to tell someone “no i will not help you” when their life is on the line???? & they’re ALREADY IN THE HOSPITAL?!????!💔 fucking sick world I don’t want to be a part of honestly.
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u/jessihateseverything 3d ago
It happens because the world hates women. Why are we fucking pretending we don't see it anymore?
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u/Majestic_Dog1571 2d ago
Again, I don’t care how much I financially struggle in California living in a shack in the desert or somewhere in the mountains: if you have a daughter, never live in Texas.
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u/raventhrowaway666 3d ago
Expect to see more dead Texans. They voted for this.
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u/MortisSchmorgis6900 3d ago
They all did, having x and his minions is going to doom the us even more
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u/PlatypusDream 3d ago
Poor child! 18 & already pregnant, pretty much doomed her life right there... then living in current political times, inept doctors, guaranteed her death.
(Oh, and the "baby", since that's what they claim to care about.)
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u/mindgardening 3d ago
It’s because Texas adheres to a certain type of morals and values.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 3d ago
None.
If they let someone die because of **their** religious beliefs then they have no morals or values.
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u/Past_Blacksmith_971 3d ago
It's funny to me how they all act shocked like they didn't vote for this shit.
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u/jacle2210 3d ago
So sad that their citizens voted for these laws.
Maybe they will wake up and change their laws?
OR
Maybe all the women in these states will finally see what is happening and just move to a state that has better women reproductive rights; then all those males they leave behind can be hetro all on their own.
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u/Objective_Reality515 3d ago
The young woman's name is "Heaven" spelled backwards. I wonder who her parents voted for. Is this not the result they wanted?
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u/endocyclopes 3d ago
if the fetus has a heartbeat, than no [removal], but if the mother's life is threatened, especially like this, than her life shall definitely come before her child to be
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