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'I felt like a walking coffin': Woman, 42, says she was forced to carry her dead fetus inside her for TWO WEEKS after Texas doctors refused to perform D&C until she got 'additional evidence' that her baby didn't have a heartbeat
Daily Mail UK ^ | July 21, 2022 | Lillian Gissen

Posted on 07/21/2022 3:25:30 PM PDT by Morgana

A beauty YouTuber has claimed that she was forced to carry her dead fetus inside of her for two weeks after Texas doctors refused to remove it because they said she needed 'additional evidence' to prove it didn't have a heartbeat amid abortion bans in the state.

Marlena Stell, 42, from Houston, recalled being ecstatic when she learned that she and her husband, Ab DeSilva, were expecting their second child together last year.

However, the makeup guru's excitement soon turned to heartbreak when she found out around nine weeks into the pregnancy that she had tragically lost the baby.

She was informed that the fetus no longer had a heartbeat, which she described as 'devastating,' and she planned to receive a dilation and curettage (D&C) - a procedure designed to remove a fetus from a women's uterus following a miscarriage.

Marlena was then told by doctors that due to Texas' law regarding abortion, which went into effect on September 1, 2021, she needed to schedule a second ultrasound to 'verify that the pregnancy is no longer valid' before they could give her 'any sort of medical intervention' - which resulted in her having to live with the deceased fetus inside of her for two extra weeks.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: abortion; giveitarest; marlenastell; prolife; roevswade; youtube
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To: Claud

Well, it was devastating, of course, but she recovered and was devoted to, and lived for, her husband and child.
She wasn’t able to have any more children.


41 posted on 07/21/2022 5:43:14 PM PDT by chronicles
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To: Karliner

If it’s just a bunch of tissue as they say why would she feel like a walking coffin?


42 posted on 07/21/2022 5:52:02 PM PDT by freefdny
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To: Morgana

I call BS. Did...not...happen.


43 posted on 07/21/2022 5:54:06 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: combat_boots

Ikr? Life sucks sometimes.


44 posted on 07/21/2022 5:55:02 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: moovova

Last call. Good one. She had to snag someone and get out before they turned on the lights.

Is she ugly? Not really. Just bad hair, icky eyebrows, far too much lipstick and makeup. Slutty looking. And (probably) very boring. Like, ya know? Perfect for last call.


45 posted on 07/21/2022 6:06:30 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Morgana

Smells like BS to me.


46 posted on 07/21/2022 6:21:47 PM PDT by JoeRender
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To: Morgana

Got to call baloney on this. Doctors will act with dispatch when a baby has died in utero.


47 posted on 07/21/2022 6:29:59 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: lurk

Actually often they will wait for natural labor. Certainly not because they they are not sure baby is dead


48 posted on 07/21/2022 6:32:15 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Morgana

Sounds like a load of Horses#it to me!!!


49 posted on 07/21/2022 7:02:02 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Claud

we were in that same situation....We were committed to “parent” until she was taken, after delivery

we held her and Named her, her life mattered, and it changed many aspects of our lives!!


50 posted on 07/21/2022 7:21:34 PM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: irishjuggler

If we did that and it was sticking their reaction would have to be something like this exchange from the movie Liar, Liar:

Fletcher: Your honor, I object!
Judge: Why?
Fletcher: Because it’s devastating to my case!
Judge: Overruled.
Fletcher: Good call!


51 posted on 07/21/2022 8:34:13 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Morgana

Marlena Stell is a fraud. Doctors have the techniques to detect the hearbeat from a baby in the womb. They could have confirmed that the baby was dead. She is an attention hound.


52 posted on 07/21/2022 10:23:25 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: paint_your_wagon
If the doctors needed additional evidence to confirm the condition of the baby, then how can she be certain that the baby was in fact dead during the initial exam?

Considering she was "ecstatic" about getting pregnant, you'd think she'd be more in denial about the baby possibly dying and be the main one demanding another ultrasound or anything else to be sure!
53 posted on 07/22/2022 8:55:54 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Morgana

I call Bea Ess, on this story.

This gal isn’t telling the entire story, I’d say.


54 posted on 07/22/2022 8:59:14 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theorybe” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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