Texas woman dies after receiving inadequate treatment for a miscarriage | Texas | The Guardian

Texas woman has died after receiving inadequate medical treatment for a miscarriage, according to a new report from ProPublica – the fifth pregnant woman the publication has found to have died since the fall of Roe v Wade after receiving inadequate care or being denied a legal abortion.

Porsha Ngumezi, a 35-year-old mother of two, died in June 2023 after experiencing a miscarriage in Texas, where nearly all abortions are banned, ProPublica reported on Monday. Ten weeks into her pregnancy, Ngumezi started to bleed and went to Houston Methodist Sugar Land, which is part of the Houston Methodist hospital chain and located in the Houston metropolitan area. While at the hospital, Ngumezi continued to bleed for several hours. She underwent multiple blood transfusions.

Doctors who reviewed Ngumezi’s case told ProPublica that she should have been offered a dilation and curettage, or D&C, a common procedure that can be used for miscarriages and abortions to clear tissue from the uterus. However, some doctors in states with abortion bans have become hesitant to offer D&Cs, doctors said, because they are afraid of being punished for violating abortion bans – even in situations where women’s pregnancies have ended, as in Ngumezi’s case…

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Songs I Like (87) | beetleypete

In 1988, I heard a song on the car radio and later that day I stopped at a record shop to buy the single. I sang a little bit of it at the counter, and the girl serving told me it was called ‘Teardrops’. (After trying and failing not to laugh at my singing)

The singers Womack and Womack were a married couple (Cecil and Linda) who wrote and recorded the song together. Cecil was the brother of Bobby Womack, another successful performer. His wife Linda is the daughter of the legendary Sam Cooke, and he was previously married to the Motown star, Mary Wells. Cecil died in 2013, aged 65.

The lyrics are on the video.

Source: Songs I Like (87) | beetleypete

As Sumatra loses mangroves to oil palms, local fishers also suffer

  • Interviews in Kwala Langkat, a fishing village in Indonesia’s Langkat district, along the Malacca Strait, suggest fisheries incomes have collapsed after local elites ripped out a mangrove ecosystem to establish a new oil palm plantation.
  • In June, Mongabay reported that police had arrested three residents of Kwala Langkat village in connection with alleged criminal damage to a structure used on the oil palm plantation.

Source: As Sumatra loses mangroves to oil palms, local fishers also suffer