08/16/2026
Herstory… Black Pregnant Woman 🤰🏽 dies from hemorrhaging during miscarriage
Given medication and waiting for it to work
Emergency D&C was needed
A Texas mother of two died after suffering catastrophic bleeding during a miscarriage and more than a dozen doctors who later reviewed her case reportedly said an emergency procedure could have saved her life.
Porsha Ngumezi, 35, was about 11 weeks pregnant when she began bleeding heavily on June 11, 2023. She was taken to Houston Methodist Sugar Land, where her condition continued to deteriorate.
According to medical records reviewed by ProPublica, Ngumezi bled through two blood transfusions, passed extremely large blood clots and eventually lost consciousness.
Her husband, Hope, stayed by her side. As Porsha became dangerously cold, he reportedly leaned over her trying to keep her warm — something especially heartbreaking because she affectionately called him “the heater.”
Hope’s mother, a former physician, reportedly told the family that Porsha needed a D&C, a procedure used to remove tissue from the uterus and stop severe bleeding.
Instead, Porsha was given misoprostol and monitored.
More than a dozen physicians who later reviewed the case reportedly concluded that an emergency D&C should have been performed and that waiting for medication to work while she was hemorrhaging was dangerously slow.
Porsha later complained repeatedly of chest pain before her condition crashed. Around 1:30 a.m., she began gasping for air as her husband desperately called for help.
She died from hemorrhaging.
