A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn't Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.

[LiberalArkie]

January 14, 2026, 5:30 am



When Ciji Graham visited a cardiologist on Nov. 14, 2023, her heart was pounding at 192 beats per minute, a rate healthy people her age usually reach during the peak of a sprint. She was having another episode of atrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heartbeat. The 34-year-old Greensboro, North Carolina, police officer was at risk of a stroke or heart failure.

In the past, doctors had always been able to shock Graham’s heart back into rhythm with a procedure called a cardioversion. But this time, the treatment was just out of reach. After a pregnancy test came back positive, the cardiologist didn’t offer to shock her. Graham texted her friend from the appointment: “Said she can’t cardiovert being pregnant.”

The doctor told Graham to consult three other specialists and her primary care provider before returning in a week, according to medical records. Then she sent Graham home as her heart kept hammering.

Like hundreds of thousands of women each year who enter pregnancy with chronic conditions, Graham was left to navigate care in a country where medical options have significantly narrowed.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-abortion-laws-ciji-graham

[get the red out]

1. Another blood sacrifice

To the Christi-Fascist GAWD. If any of them see this they will have to go pleasure themselves.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Modern version of burning women at the stake.

For made up reasons.

[GiqueCee]

3. My hatred of Der Republican Party...

... has always burned hotter than the surface of the Sun. But just now, it went supernova. These people – and I use the term loosely – are malignant filth devoid of ANY redeeming qualities whatsoever.

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4. Do low status men who support Trump get that when

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women of childbearing age die due to the tragedy of lack of healthcare, their husband's go out and marry some young, attractive, woman? The result is less women for low status, single men. I wonder what the stats were in the 1800s for poor, unmarried, men. That when a second young wife, after losing his first wife to the lack of reproductive health care, went to a high status widow, there were slim pickings to everybody else. Oh and lots of young men died in wars back then, so there will be even more single men this time around. That doesn't even take into account the women who will just skip being in a relationship to avoid facing no choice in their maternal health.

If someone is telling you you will benefit from a lack of women's rights on this issue, or healthcare in general, you don't understand anything. You are being used for your vote.

Oh, and every woman's death is a tragedy. There is now a family without Ciji Graham.