# @propublica on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DC2SvzrSSHk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34003829-propublica-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-26T20:42:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** ProPublica (@propublica) — https://gondola.cc/propublica

## Caption

Porsha Ngumezi, a 35-year-old mother of two living in Houston, Texas, was 11 weeks pregnant when she died last year after doctors did not give her a D&C, or dilation and curettage procedure, to complete her miscarriage and stop her bleeding.

According to more than a dozen doctors who reviewed a summary of her case for ProPublica, her death was preventable. Some said it raises serious questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid the standard of care – and reach for less-effective options that could expose their patients to more risks. 

This is the fifth case we’ve reported on – and the third case in Texas – in which women died after they did not receive a D&C, or its second-trimester equivalent, in time or at all. 

📸: Danielle Villasana for ProPublica

#abortion #abortionban #roevwade

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