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Texas’ Abortion Ban Killed Josseli Barnica. Who Will Be Next?
The young mother was happily expecting her second child when, like millions of women, she suffered a miscarriage.
Texans tell it like it is.
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Yet another heartbreaking and infuriating story has surfaced of a woman dying because of an extreme abortion policy in the US.
Her name was Josseli Barnica and she was a 28-year-old mother and wife who died from sepsis in 2021 after doctors, fearful of a Texas abortion ban passed before Roe v. Wade was overturned, failed to intervene as she miscarried.