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. :|
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.
From the headline I thought it was a situation where she was brain dead and it was 6 months in and the foetus only needed a little while longer to become viable and, so long as she wanted the child, they could maybe have kept it going until they could prepare for all the necessary care a severely premature baby would need. 9 weeks though?! That’s absurd. That’s just pigheaded stupidity!
Someone should sneak in and pull the plug, or the family should withdraw consent to treatment or something (I don’t know the laws).
Kept the baby alive so it can grow up and pay the hospital fees?
I hate this fucking country.
I can’t imagine living with this origin story.
Georgiastan
I’d say this is like Death Stranding but at least in DS the US had to smuggle brain dead women from Mexico.
Let the mother rest. Her care was already botched by the lack of evaluation when she went to the hospital. She should not be expected to carry her son for any length of time. This is wildly disrespectful to her and the family.
She’s not carrying it… she’s dead… they are growing a baby inside of a corpse… which will not be very good for the development of the baby let me tell you… it’s almost like you need a living body to properly transfer nutrients to a growing human being but they’ll find out… they will find the fuck out. This is a fucking Horror Show
Being black and going to the hospital for an emergency is scary! Are you going to get the doctor that secretly hates black people or a doctor that still believes black people have higher pain tolerance so no need for local anesthesia.
The family should sue the state.
No one cares about the dead mother … no one will care about the child after its born
The unborn baby is at its peak right now because once it comes into this world … absolutely no one will give a shit about it
I like that you call them Cons
Imagine working day in and day out in the place that can save you, and even that’s not enough to do it because money
Ahhh, so we’re gestating our young in the corpses of their mothers now? That seems less than ideal.
Yeah this is some Imperium of Man bullshit, wtf.
Literally the prelude to Death Stranding.
I love that game… But I would NOT want to live in that world lol.
It’s pretty much the Axolotl Tanks from the Dune series. An overtly patriarchal society that hates its women eventually decides the preferred course of action is turn them into laborious, unrecognizable gestational vats.
For a profit as well.
It seems like there should be a prophecy that mentions this.
Does anyone in the entire process ever just wonder… Are we the baddies?
So as a doctor working in an intensive care unit, we even know we’re the baddies sometimes. We’ve had people quit over that. Pretty hard to fight the system and take people off of live support. I’m in Austria and the laws are pretty different here. Best thing we can do if we think a patient isn’t benefiting from more life prolonging interventions is to do an “ethic council”. There a bunch of different doctors who don’t work at the same unit and a lawyer get together and decide what to do. Still we had some people rotting to death in our unit. Also people on life support where we knew we could never get them out of intensive care and just prolonging their suffering. In the end some kind of infection will take them. But we’re just prolonging their suffering and their families suffering who are trusting us. Horrible situation all around. And the thing is we do that because the surgeon in charge doesn’t want them to die because then the surgery will be considered failed In statistics. So we keep them alive for 30 days… I’m still in training so can’t really change the system just make people as comfortable as possible with painmedication and sedation until they’re allowed to die. (Usually after 30 days so the surgery is seen as successful)
People capable of self reflection generally aren’t conservative
Make Republicans terrified.
Beat Christians down.
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
