Texas OB-GYNs are openly speaking out against the Texas abortion ban.
Sunday, over 100 Texas OB-GYNs signed an open letter condemning the Texas abortion ban for not allowing doctors to do their jobs and provide life-saving care to their patients.
The letter comes after Friday's new report co-published by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, detailing the deaths of two Texas women who died of sepsis following miscarriages after being denied emergency medical care at multiple hospitals.
According to the Texas Tribune article, 28-year-old Josseli Barnica died of an infection three days after she began to miscarry in 2021. More than a dozen medical experts said Barnica’s death was preventable. However, the law kept doctors from intervening until they couldn’t detect a fetal heartbeat, which didn’t happen until about 40 hours after the miscarriage started.
The open letter urges policymakers across Texas to do something to make sure this never happens again.
“Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain should be alive today,” the doctors wrote in their letter. “As OB-GYNs in Texas, we know firsthand how much these laws restrict our ability to provide our patients with quality, evidence-based care.”
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