The story of Tamesha Means and her miscarriage three years ago, if it happened the way her lawyers claim it did, is truly awful: Means was 18 weeks pregnant when her water broke and she was rushed to a hospital in Muskegon, Mich. The fetus wasn't viable, and the pregnancy—Means' third—was doomed.
But doctors at the hospital, part of the Catholic healthcare network known as Mercy Health Partners, didn't tell her that, Means' lawyers say. Instead of the normal course of treatment—inducing labor and terminating the pregnancy to stave off potentially risky complications—Means was allegedly kept in the dark about her condition, given painkillers, and sent home.
Bleeding and wracked with pain, she returned to Mercy twice over the next day or so and received more or less the same response, her lawyers claim. Just as she was about to be sent home a third time, by now feverish from a severe infection, she began to deliver. The baby died.
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