(Gray News) – An 18-year-old Texas woman who suffered a miscarriage died after the state’s abortion ban prevented her from receiving life-saving medical care.

On October 28, 2023, Nevaeh Crain woke up with a headache the morning of her baby shower.

Not long after, Crain developed a fever followed by nausea and vomiting.

She opened gifts and fought during her baby shower. But at 3 in the afternoon, her family decided to take her to the emergency room.

Crain’s boyfriend took her to a hospital where they remained in the waiting room for almost four hours.

While at the first hospital, he was diagnosed with strep throat, but his acute abdominal cramps were not investigated. He was discharged and prescribed antibiotics. ProPública reported.

In the middle of the night, Crain woke her mother complaining of severe stomach pains, so she took her daughter to the hospital.

At the second hospital, he tested positive for sepsis. But doctors said her six-month-old fetus had a heartbeat and Crain was good to go. depending on the medium.

After numerous hours of intravenous fluids, a dose of antibiotics, and some Tylenol, Crain’s fever did not break.

Her pulse also remained high and the fetal heart rate was abnormally fast.

The doctor said Crain had strep and a urinary tract infection, gave him a prescription and discharged him.

When Crain returned home, he was still in pain. He told his mother that he had to urinate, but noticed that blood had stained his underwear.

The blood confirmed her mother’s instinct that she was suffering a miscarriage.

The next morning, they returned to another hospital where Crain kept saying he was going to faint.

Medical staff gave Crain intravenous antibiotics, and the OB-GYN on duty also reported that he could not find a fetal heartbeat at that time.

Finally, doctors performed a second ultrasound to “confirm fetal death.”

At the time, Crain was unable to sign the consent forms due to “extreme pain,” so her mother signed an authorization to allow her daughter to have an unplanned cesarean section.

The almost total prohibition of abortion in texas It meant that doctors could do nothing to remove the nonviable fetus unless Crain’s life was at risk.

She would have to get sick enough for doctors to intervene or abort on her own.

However, doctors decided it was now too dangerous. Doctors suspected he was bleeding internally after developing a dangerous complication of sepsis called disseminated intravascular coagulation.

Crain died hours later in the ICU.

According to ProPúblicathere was a possibility that Crain had become pregnant. If she had needed a premature birth, the hospital was well equipped to care for the baby.

If the infection had gone too far, it might have been necessary to terminate the pregnancy to save Crain.

Crain is one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.

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