Press Release Texas
Press Release
Reproductive Freedom for All Statement on the Death of Nevaeh Crain
Washington, DC — Today, ProPublica reported on the tragic death of Nevaeh Crain, an 18-year-old Texas woman who was six months pregnant when she started experiencing signs of a miscarriage and sepsis. She sought emergency care three times over the course of 20 hours before finally being admitted to a hospital, at which point her care had been delayed so long that doctors were unable to save her. News of Nevaeh’s death comes just two days after ProPublica reported on the preventable death of Josseli Barnica.
Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:
“Pregnancy should not be a death sentence. Nevaeh Crain should be here, celebrating her 20th birthday today. And she would be, if not for Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Ted Cruz, and the other extremists who put these deadly abortion bans in place and created this crisis. This has to stop. And our best chance to do that is to vote for reproductive freedom, from Vice President Harris to Colin Allred and all the way down the ticket, so we can restore the right to abortion and end these bans.”
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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.