Summary
Eighteen-year-old Nevaeh Crain died from sepsis after Texas’s abortion ban delayed critical medical intervention during her pregnancy complications.
Despite multiple ER visits and severe symptoms, doctors waited to confirm fetal demise before acting due to the state’s restrictive laws. Crain endured intense pain and deteriorating health over multiple hospital visits, ultimately suffering a miscarriage and passing away from internal bleeding.
Medical experts believe timely intervention could have saved her. Her mother, Candace Fails, is pursuing legal accountability but faces significant legal hurdles under Texas’s stringent emergency care standards.
Why are American conservatives such a bunch of loonies? Conservatives in other developed countries allow abortion in cases of clear danger to the health of the mother and/or the fetus/baby. American conservatives is as bad the Taliban.
I’ve been wondering the same thing. Many countries around the world that are seemingly more religious have far less restrictions. Texas’ restrictions are absolutely draconian by comparison.
Looking at the two countries I live in, for example:
Portugal is a very catholic and traditional country. And yet abortion is legal for any or no reason up to 10 weeks, plus up to 24 weeks if the mother’s health is impaired (need not be life threatening).
Argentina’s population is like 75% Roman Catholic, many of them rather devout, and yet they allow abortion up to 14 weeks without any restrictions.
In both countries, these laws enjoy widespread support and are not considered controversial; the local conservative parties have zero interest in touching it.
It seems to me that the conservatives here in the US had to make so much noise about these pet wedge issues like abortion, since they didn’t have real policies to improve the country, that they built a feedback loop with the conservative voters who have thought of abortion as the #1 issue for decades.
So it has decades of building momentum plus the all-important “I care about hurting the people I don’t like more than I care about helping anybody” factor. Couple that with the modern Republican mindset that expects to take everything and give nothing, and you get some dumb decisions.
