A mother in Texas has now died after the hospital said it would be a crime to intervene in her miscarriage. Jocely Veronica was grieving in a hospital [00:00:16] as she found out the sibling she was hoping to give her daughter would not survive her pregnancy. The fetus was on the verge of coming out. Its head pressed against her dilated cervix. She was 17 weeks pregnant [00:00:33] and a miscarriage was, quote, in progress. That's according to the notes in the doctor's own record. A miscarriage was in progress at that point. They should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus [00:00:53] to stave off a deadly infection. More than a dozen medical experts told this to ProPublica. But when Veronica's husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, [00:01:12] she relayed what she said. The medical team told her, quote, they had to wait until there was no heartbeat, he told ProPublica in Spanish. [00:01:28] It would be a crime to give her an abortion. So for 40 hours, the anguished 28 year old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter. All the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria. [00:01:50] Three days after she delivered, she died. Died of what? An infection. As noted by the record. There it is. Institute of Forensic Sciences, Harris County. [00:02:09] You see, Barnechea is one of at least two Texas women. I believe there are more who ProPublica found lost their lives after doctors delayed treating miscarriages, which fall into a gray area under the state's strict abortion laws [00:02:27] that prohibit doctors from ending the heartbeat of a fetus. Now, I can go back and forth with anyone about what a heartbeat is and what it is, not what a pulse or a rhythm is what it is not. [00:02:48] What is clear in the record is that it was the determination of the medical staff, including the head doctor, that this is in fact a miscarriage. There's no viability. [00:03:04] Neither had wanted the abortion, but that didn't matter. Though proponents insist that the laws protect both life, the life of the fetus and the person carrying it. In practice, doctors have hesitated to provide care under threat of prosecution, [00:03:20] prison time and professional ruin. This is your politics at play. Her death was preventable, according to more than a dozen medical experts who reviewed a summary of her hospital and autopsy records at the publication's request. [00:03:37] They called her case, quote, horrific, astounding and egregious. Let me give you a reminder. Texas saw a dramatic rise in maternal mortality rate in the wake of the abortion ban. [00:03:52] We reported on this right here at indisputable. We talked about these numbers in detail. We provided the cause and effect. The correlation and causation that creates the increased level of actual deaths in [00:04:09] Texas and frankly, other states who have embraced an ideology rather than life. This is a sad state of affairs, the blood of the individuals who die under this loss, under these laws, on the hands of those who decided to champion them. [00:04:27] All right, dear brother, what are your thoughts? Well, first I want to say this is largely why Kamala's winning and why she's going to win. But also, before we get more into that in terms of early vote data and early voter registration, early voter surveys, you know, this really is something [00:04:43] that the American people don't want. Even Republican voters. You take a look at Ohio, Kansas, whenever something like this is on the ballot referendum to protect abortion rights, people come out in droves and they vote to protect abortion rights. That's actually on a ballot initiative here in Missouri, where I'm at, [00:04:59] to protect abortion rights. And the Supreme Court of Missouri. Well, some politician, I can't remember his name exactly, but they they tried to get that off the ballot because they see when people have an option to protect abortion rights, they typically do. But luckily, the higher federal court knocked it down [00:05:15] and it's still on the ballot. People don't want this. And ever since the Dobbs decision in 2022, not only have Democrats been winning elections, but they've been greatly overperforming in the polls. Early voter data is looking at a huge swath of women coming out, and the surveys are showing that Trump ain't got the Republicans [00:05:33] in a good five, 10% of Republican. I mean, don't have independents, rather, and a good 5 to 10% of Republicans are, in fact, casting their votes for Kamala. So in addition to other things, this is just an endlessly losing issue for Republicans because there's no real good way they can discuss this. [00:05:50] You know, you you know, Trump and his this is what. Everybody wanted for 52 years. - Like you can't. - Really convince people of that. Like this isn't what people wanted. And then anytime, you know, like JD Vance or another Republican are like, well, we have to earn back Americans trust. What are you talking about? [00:06:06] - This. - This was settled in 1973. And stories like this are continuing to pile up to show that women are dying. People are suffering because of these decisions. So the reversal of Roe was easily one of the biggest political mistakes of modern times. [00:06:21] Obviously, we still got to get out and vote. Progressives need to get more involved in local elections. We got to play our part even heavier. But, this just tragic story after tragic story. And these Republican politicians don't care, even though it's costing them elections, they don't care. [00:06:38] So I guess that's good for them. But, we really, really gotta mobilize and make sure that we take our rights back because they don't want us to have them. That's right. And this is how they chisel away. They start with an idea, they test it in their particular state. [00:06:58] It then becomes regional, and all of a sudden it becomes a national law. And that is where they are headed if they regain power.