![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/woman-suffers-stillbirth-after-being-ordered-to-keep-working-during-labour/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1_Prison-guard-suffers-stillbirth-after-being-ordered-to-keep-working-when-she-went-into-labor.jpg&description=Salia Issa was working at a Texas prison when she began suffering intense pain while seven months pregnant, but has said she was accused of lying and stopped from going to hospital for more than two hours A prison guard is suing the prison where she worked after she was prevented from going to hospital for two and a half hours as she experienced extreme pain while seven months pregnant - with the baby then delivered stillborn. Salia Issa, from Texas, claims she was accused by supervisors of lying about her contractions. She said she was also told she had to wait until a replacement arrived before she could leave her post. She was told by medics that if she had managed to get to hospital sooner on the day, November 15, 2021, her baby could have been saved. Salia and her husband, Fiston Rukengeza, filed the lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in 2022. They're seeking monetary damages to cover her medical bills, pain and suffering, and other things, including funeral expenses for her child. "You just want to go home," Salia alleges her supervisor told her. The state attorney general's office and prison system have asked a judge to dismiss the case, with Republican attorney general Ken Paxton arguing that the unborn child did not have rights. For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US. Mr Paxton is known for holding a strong pro-life stance, having declared on the day Roe v Wade was overturned: "I look forward to defending the pro-life laws of Texas and the lives of all unborn children moving forward." As soon as the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in June 2022, Texas immediately banned abortion. Earlier this month, Mr Paxton celebrated when the state Supreme Court temporarily blocked a decision by a lower court which declared Texas' abortion ban unlawful. "Protecting the health of mothers and babies is of paramount importance to the people of Texas a moral principle enshrined in the law," he said){kind=link}
Salia Issa was working at a Texas prison when she began suffering intense pain while seven months pregnant, but has said she was accused of lying and stopped from going to hospital for more than two hours
A prison guard is suing the prison where she worked after she was prevented from going to hospital for two and a half hours as she experienced extreme pain while seven months pregnant – with the baby then delivered stillborn.
Salia Issa, from Texas, claims she was accused by supervisors of lying about her contractions. She said she was also told she had to wait until a replacement arrived before she could leave her post.
She was told by medics that if she had managed to get to hospital sooner on the day, November 15, 2021, her baby could have been saved.
Salia and her husband, Fiston Rukengeza, filed the lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in 2022. They’re seeking monetary damages to cover her medical bills, pain and suffering, and other things, including funeral expenses for her child.