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Georgia hospital keeps brain-dead pregnant woman alive due to abortion ban
Every day that goes by, its more cost, more trauma, more questions, Adriana Smith's mother told a local NBC News affiliate.
May 16, 2025, 4:54 PM EDT / Updated May 16, 2025, 7:22 PM EDT
By Allison Detzel
In February, a pregnant woman in Georgia was rushed to a hospital after experiencing intense headaches. There, a CT scan showed blood clots in Adriana Smiths brain, and the 30-year-old nurse was soon declared brain-dead, NBC affiliate WXIA-TV reported.
Three months later, her mother says Smith is being kept alive with ventilators due to the states strict abortion law.
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At the time of her hospitalization, Smith was nine weeks pregnant with her second child. Newkirk says her daughter is currently 21 weeks pregnant. The family says doctors at Emory University Hospital have said that they are not legally allowed to consider any options.
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JanMichael
(25,725 posts)Since I don't that leaves some potential punishment on Earth.
Clouds Passing
(6,835 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(26,166 posts)She is dead and her body is being used as an incubator in a medical experiment she never consented to.
Solly Mack
(96,284 posts)mwmisses4289
(3,092 posts)(although I believe the texas woman was about 7-8 months into her pregnancy). Upshot was her baby was still born. Apparently the ones who pushed for her being kept alive on medical equipment were shocked that once she was brain dead, her body stopped working, and no amount of medical intervention was going to keep her and her baby alive.
blm
(114,412 posts)peggysue2
(12,369 posts)It is, however, a clear reminder that in MAGA World women are mere birthing vessels sans personhood or agency.
Only the fetus is important. Women? Not so much.
Ghoulish!
RJ-MacReady
(603 posts)Need to highlight this and warn this is the future. Use fear because it is true. We need to downright frighten people.
Ping Tung
(4,121 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)Emile
(40,314 posts)This is just more sick religiously insane bs.
Attilatheblond
(8,142 posts)Totally vile that they are using the arguement of an abortion ban to justify this outrageous treatment of the woman and her family
LisaL
(47,343 posts)Hospital might end up eating the costs. They can't turn her life support off as long as she is incubating the fetus.
Mariana
(15,612 posts)She certainly didn't consent to it.
Attilatheblond
(8,142 posts)She is not incubating she is DEAD
Bayard
(28,358 posts)I'm thinking the minute they stop, this woman will be cut loose.
LisaL
(47,343 posts)The hospital won't cut her loose, insurance or not, as long as she is incubating the fetus.
Mariana
(15,612 posts)But why should they pay for anything that was done after she died? Insurance companies suck, but they would be in the right to refuse to pay for this.
Meowmee
(9,212 posts)Or even if she is. They could try suing the hospital or the state for compensation.
Frasier Balzov
(4,828 posts)That's where the moral compass is pointing on this.
It's a guess, but if assumptions are to be made...
Zombie Mom is probably not good defense of reproductive choice.
LisaL
(47,343 posts)She is incubating the fetus, that's all there is to it per the GA law that prohibits abortions.
Meowmee
(9,212 posts)Terrible for her family. 😿
Mz Pip
(28,335 posts)There would have been no abortion involved. The woman died and her fetus would have died along with her without this macabre intervention.