A few snippets from the article:
“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.
Who said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? How much would the CT scan have cost?
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.
A mother and wife lost because the hospital wanted to skimp out on the diagnostic that might have saved her.
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.
90 days out of a possible 220 or so days. How much has it cost to keep her alive since her brain death, and how much is it going to cost to keep her alive for 130 more days? And remember, it’s not just $, but emotional health for her boyfriend, mother, son, and anyone else not mentioned/interviewed.
“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.”
And all of this for a baby that is likely to suffer major medical issues due to gestating in a brain-dead, possibly otherwise compromised body, hooped up on medication and other medical intervention to preserve the body’s life long enough for the baby to be born, possibly severely compromised itself.
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.
But of course Cons don’t give a shit about this. Woman dies, leaving behind a son, mother, boyfriend, and countless friends? Nah, that’s not important. BABY MUST BE BORN, no matter how injured gestating in a body like that will make it, making the baby a burden on other people, because GAWD’S WILL and bullshit like that. :|
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It would be karmic justice to actually send the entire hospital bill to state legislators who voted for this crap to happen.
Another sick, yet apt representation of the Republican value of being pro-birth and not pro-life.
A mother and wife lost because the hospital wanted to skimp out on the diagnostic that might have saved her.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
… And private healthcare is highly incentivized to cause you to not be able to access that inexpensive ounce of prevention, so that you are forced to pay exorbitantly for the pound of cure.
This is what you get when you let the profit motive run the health care sector.
It is a giant, ghoullish, money extraction machine, because ‘shareholder value.’
Everthing is backwards, bizzaro world… on purpose.
It is working as intended.
It is intended to make money.
What the hell are ounces and pounds?
25.97 cm³ of water at room temperature of prevention is worth 1/14th a stone of cure, innit?
A gram of prevention is worth 1.6 decagrams of cure.
Every healthcare regulation is written in blood, grief, sorrow and sadness.
Sure, but we don’t usually fix the problem, then go back to the blood, grief, sorrow, and sadness
Yeah, that’s why in most places, they don’t erase those rules again. Except in NSW and the US where it is a straight up competition to break those rules again the most times.
So i guess the hippocratic oath doesn’t mean anything to these doctors either.
Make no mistake: This is the world conservatives want! This is the desired outcome. This is their law. They were warned things like this would happen. They didn’t care.
This is their ideal outcome. Think if women were reduced to nothing but wombs to birth strong, white sons. The poor men would do all of the domestic stuff, likely including sexual gratification of their betters (no homo!!!). It would be a conservative paradise.
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You know, for religious people, you would think conservatives would find it satanic to grow a baby inside of a dead woman, like an afront to God or something, but hey, who am I to tell them which one of their crazy BS morals makes more or less sense.
These people don’t believe in brain death. They think she’s alive and her soul is still powering her body.
“Her soul is in heaven, satan posessed her body and the child is the child of the beast!” - Some religious people too.
I’ve heard it all. If one believes something, another doesn’t and it all makes sense, because that’s what God wanted (according to them and some random part of the bible that so happens to very vaguely support them).
God in the end is just a manifestation of their own desires to control others, whichever form of control they want to exercise anyway. They are control freaks. They can’t help it.
Oh, you don’t want to give birth after death and leave your family in financial and emotional distress? Too bad, I’m in control! It’s God that said so, suck it! I get to control you in his name!
Totally unrealistic everyone knows the child of the beast is in the White House
Not to mention God clearly wants her dead but scientists are keeping her alive.
Doctors are keeping her alive by law, because of religious conservative control freaks*
Fixed it for you.
Eh, God doesn’t exist, scientists just keep getting better at controlling nature
I know you already get it, but imma say it for the folks in the back who haven’t figured it out yet.
More disposable bodies for the meat grinder, no matter what. More slaves to be sacrificed on the altar of profit. There can be no fun, no joy, no fulfillment for the masses, only toil and suffering and birthing the next generation. This is why they hate the lgbt’s so much, because we’re having sex for fun and not producing more disposable bodies for the meat grinder.
I have a very disturbing thought: besides politicians, hospitals, executives, board are making money. If the family can’t pay, hit to credit and outcast as degenerate bill dodgers.
So many people plan to profit, financially, legally, politically. "Christian Nation,” “Family values.”
I wonder if we’ll get new and improved slave bibles.
Extending on your thoughts…
If the father doesn’t sign the B.C., the kid is a ward of the state. That’s a decent way to siphon lots of taxpayer money into the pockets of that same list for years to come. Condemning that poor kid to extended suffering.
Also, who will pay for the care given until the birth? I’m going to assume that the hospital is insured against public care situations. I can easily imagine pushback from insurance companies about the impact of this policy. If they refuse to pay, the hospital has some very mixed incentives. That alone can lead to pressure to fix things. If it becomes profit or conservative morality, I expect that profit will win out.
conservative morality
- To the devil with you, hurrah for me.
Then when they end up on the street they’re homeless, and homeless people don’t matter ☺️ /s but also people really don’t give a fuck about homeless people.
They are robbing these people. This is a massive injustice. What the fuck.
holy shit this is beyond disgusting
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Kept the baby alive so it can grow up and pay the hospital fees?
Stuff like this is why I say abortion is pro-life
What life will that child have?
well according to Death Stranding, the baby should have a psychic link to the world of the dead… so at least there’s that
Most conservatives could boil down their hatred of abortion to the fact that leftists and liberals are for it.
Religion, my ass… They see political parties like sports teams. They just want to win and feel like you lost.
Abortion was never a religious point until the figureheads figured out they can divide people with this bullshit.
God performs an abortion in the fucking Bible FFS
Surley the for profit system will kill her if they’re too broke to afford the hospital bills though, right?
And expose themselves to a charge of murder of the foetus?
I think that only applies to poor people
Several hospitals have let people die because the alternative was killing a foetus which would be murder in those states
