Posted on 02/18/2025 12:03:49 PM PST by Morgana
A mother-of-three who had all four limbs amputated after doctors were slow to treat an infection contracted during an abortion has told of the horrors she endured as a result of alleged medical negligence as she called for 'exemplary justice' to be done.
Frenchwoman Priscilla Dray suffered septic shock within hours of leaving the Pellegrin University Hospital in Bordeaux following an elective abortion in 2011.
The former shopkeeper, then 36, claimed she had arrived for the procedure in 'great shape' but was 'left to die' when doctors refused her antibiotics for the infection, leading to septicaemia and necrosis before doctors had to amputate.
Speaking today, after doctors appeared before the Bordeaux Criminal Court, she told reporters: 'I'm very stressed... This is something I've waited 14 years for, and psychologically it's not easy... But I need this hearing to be able to have the answers to questions I've been asking for a long time.'
'It's unacceptable that this sort of thing can happen... I expect exemplary justice, a very, very strong ruling that reflects the extent of my suffering, the extent of what they took from me.
'You have no choice but to go on because of your kids. I expect a lot for the extent of the suffering I've endured - that my husband and kids have endured - for 14 years,' she concluded.
Two hospital doctors appeared before the court yesterday, indicted for involuntary injuries with incapacity. Ms Dray is also suing the University Hospital as a legal entity.
The mother of three claimed that her temperature soared to 39.6C hours after she underwent a voluntary abortion, prompting her to head to the university hospital emergency room on July 23, 2011.
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This seems like a very real case of malpractice. I hate that she felt the need to abort her child, but the fact is she was undergoing a “legal” procedure and our repugnance of it doesn’t exonerate the doctors who allowed her to progress so such a point.
I think that is what a non-Buddhist like myself would have said instead of your gleeful Buddhist religion judgement.
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