Absolutely unconscionable. This murder from Houston, TX occurred in 2021 and is part of a series from propublica on the destruction caused by abortion bans. In our eyes, Josseli Barnica was absolutely murdered by the state. She should still be here with her family. We don’t need or want abortion bans at any stage of pregnancy, ever. “Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving her daughter would not survive this pregnancy. The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a deadly infection, more than a dozen medical experts told ProPublica. But when Barnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told he...