“This is a negative side of popularity. People are crazy for their cricketers. The organizers should have planned it better,” BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia said.
Kyleigh Thurman, one of the patients who filed a federal complaint against an emergency room for not treating her ectopic pregnancy, talks about her experience at her studio, Aug. 7, 2024, in Burnet County, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)Kyleigh Thurman, one of the patients who filed a federal complaint against an emergency room for not treating her ectopic pregnancy, talks about her experience at her studio, Aug. 7, 2024, in Burnet County, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Emergency room staff observed that Thurman’s hormone levels had dropped, a pregnancy was not visible in her uterus and a structure was blocking her fallopian tube — all telltale signs of an ectopic pregnancy, when a fetus implants outside of the uterus and has no room to grow. If left untreated, ectopic pregnancies can rupture, causing organ damage, hemorrhage or even death.Thurman, however, was sent home and given a pamphlet on miscarriage for her first pregnancy. She returned three days later, still bleeding, and was given an injected drug intended to end the pregnancy, but it was too late. Days later, she showed up again at the emergency room, bleeding out because the fertilized egg growing on Thurman’s fallopian tube ruptured it. She underwent an emergency surgery that removed part of her reproductive system.CMS launched its investigation of how Ascension Seton Williamson handled Thurman’s case late last year, shortly after she filed a complaint. Investigators concluded the hospital failed to give her a proper medical screening exam, including an evaluation with an OB-GYN. The hospital violated the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which requires emergency rooms to provide stabilizing treatment to all patients. Thurman was “at risk for deterioration of her health and wellbeing as a result of an untreated medical condition,” the investigation said in its report, which was publicly released last month.
Ascension, a vast hospital system that has facilities across multiple states, did not respond to questions about Thurman’s case, saying only that it is “is committed to providing high-quality care to all who seek our services.”Doctors and legal experts have warned abortion restrictions like the one Texas enacted have discouraged emergency room staff from aborting dangerous and nonviable pregnancies, even when a woman’s life is imperiled. The stakes are especially high in Texas, where doctors face up to 99 years in prison if convicted of performing an illegal abortion. Lawmakers in the state are
that would remove criminal penalties for doctors who provide abortions in certain medical emergencies.
“We see patients with miscarriages being denied care, bleeding out in parking lots. We see patients with nonviable pregnancies being told to continue those to term,” said Molly Duane, an attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights that represented Thurman. “This is not, maybe, what some people thought abortion bans would look like, but this is the reality.”La fiscalía acusa a López de, supuestamente, haber colaborado en la “sustracción de fondos de las arcas del Estado” mientras trabajaba como asesora de Chicas.
“Nosotros haremos nuestro trabajo. Tenemos argumentos muy sólidos, tenemos evidencia, tenemos los arraigos y esperamos que se dé un juicio justo”, defendió Cruz.Miembros de organizaciones defensoras de derechos humanos y del Comité de Expresos y Presas Políticos de El Salvador (COPPES) se concentraron frente al Centro Judicial Isidro Menéndez para dar acompañamiento a la audiencia en el caso contra López.
Abogados y organizaciones de la sociedad civil han criticado que la defensora de derechos humanos haya permanecido prácticamente incomunicada por más de dos semanas sin comparecer ante el juez.La Constitución salvadoreña indica que todo detenido debe comparecer ante un juez en 72 horas. Ese plazo, no obstante, puede extenderse a 15 días —como ha ocurrido con López— a raíz del régimen de