Frau erklärte, dass das Gehirn tot am Leben gehalten wird, um die Schwangerschaft nach staatlichem Recht fortzusetzen, sagt Familie

Nothing but an incubator. I can’t imagine what her family is going through. Every day I wake up more and more glad I don’t live in the US because what an absolute dumpster fire.

i can’t imagine what the family is going through. did she have an advanced directive? also this whole „fetal heartbeat“ thing is non-science. the fetus doesn’t develop internal organs (including the heart) until much later in pregnancy. it doesn’t have a „heartbeat.“

The Republican position is that a woman is simply an incubator at the moment of conception.

That is why they spent decades working to overturn Roe v Wade.

„Adriana Smith, a registered nurse at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, was about 9 weeks pregnant when she started having bad headaches in February. The 30-year-old went to Northside Hospital for help but was released after being given medication, according to her mother, April Newkirk.

“They gave her some medication, but they didn’t do any tests, didn’t do any CT scans. If they did, they would have caught it,” Newkirk said.

The next morning, Smith’s boyfriend noticed something was terribly wrong.

“She was gasping for air in her sleep, gargling. More than likely, it was blood,” Newkirk said.

Smith ended up being taken to the hospital where she worked. A CT scan revealed multiple blood clots in her brain. Unfortunately, there was nothing doctors could do, and Smith was declared brain dead.

“I feel like somebody dropped the ball at the hospitals, and her boyfriend asked, ‘Please keep her.’ If she was kept at the hospital, we wouldn’t be here,” Newkirk said.

More than 90 days later, Smith’s family, including her young son, is still by her side as she remains on life support, but they say they weren’t given any say in her case because of Georgia’s heartbeat law. The law bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, typically around 6 weeks into pregnancy.

“It’s torture for me. I come here, and I see my daughter breathing on a ventilator, but she’s not there,” Newkirk said.

Now at 21 weeks gestation, the baby’s health is uncertain. Smith was moved to Emory Midtown on Tuesday, which doctors told the family is better equipped for obstetric care. The plan is to keep Smith alive until doctors believe the baby can survive outside the womb, likely at 32 weeks.

Newkirk says it’s a situation no one should be forced into.

“She’s pregnant with my grandson, but my grandson may be blind, may not be able to walk, wheelchair bound. We don’t know if he’ll live once she has him,” Newkirk said. “It should have been left up to the family.”

In Smith’s case, the state’s heartbeat law created a legal gray area. There are limited exceptions, including for rape, incest or if the mother’s life is in danger. Because Smith is brain dead and no longer considered at risk herself, her medical team is legally required to maintain life support until the fetus reaches viability.

The family says doctors told them they are not legally allowed to consider other options.

“I think every woman should have the right to make their own decision, and if not, then their partner or their parents,” Newkirk said. “I’m not saying we would have chosen to terminate her pregnancy, but what I’m saying is we should have had a choice.”

Newkirk says she wants people to understand the human toll of Georgia’s law and the emotional weight of being stripped of medical decision-making during a crisis.“

Being black in this country…

I continue to feel justified in my decision to be sterilized

Horrifying. And basically, the reublican ideal for women.

Normally when a brain dead woman is having a baby we just call her a Republican.

Gotta love being effectively turned into some kind of human incubator fuck doll by the Republican Party for the sake of a baby that’s going to turn out to be premature, probably disabled in some way, and coming into a family that has been broken emotionally by the ordeal that may or may not go into medical bankruptcy (because of course, keeping a vegetable on life support for however many months it’s been is *definitely* going to be a super cheap thing that the good folks that run their health insurance is *definitely* going to cover)

The most disgusting thing I have ever had the displeasure of reading.

Fuck Georgia. Fuck everyone who collaborated to make this happen. Fuck every pro-lifer.

First she didn’t get proper treatment, now they are keeping her alive with machines. All that at her workplace where she worked as a nurse.

This is sick, this is so sick.

The American Taliban is disgusting.

Insane. Not only are losing the right to their bodies but also apprently the right to die with a modicum of dignity.

you know the conspiracy theory that doctors let you die if you’re a registered organ donor?

This makes me think of that. Mindless wombs don’t talk back……

I have never been more glad to be in menopause. That is barbaric.

Dont worry once this nightmare is over they will get a nice $400,000 hospital bill and have their credit reports ruined for 10+ years, probably have to file for bankruptcy.

But hey atleast this baby will grow up without its mother. Congrats!

This is the way Republicans see women: incubators.