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babylonsister

(172,544 posts)
Sun May 18, 2025, 09:53 AM May 2025

Georgia hospital keeps brain-dead pregnant woman alive due to abortion ban

Tragic and pathetic.


Georgia hospital keeps brain-dead pregnant woman alive due to abortion ban
“Every day that goes by, it’s 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 Smith’s 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 state’s 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.

“It should have been left up to the family,” Newkirk said, adding: “I’m not saying that we would have chose to terminate her pregnancy, but [what] I’m saying is: We should have had a choice.”


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https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/family-forced-brain-dead-pregnant-woman-alive-rcna207319
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Georgia hospital keeps brain-dead pregnant woman alive due to abortion ban (Original Post) babylonsister May 2025 OP
Twisted people. I wish there was a hell. JanMichael May 2025 #1
Well said JanMichael Clouds Passing May 2025 #2
Saying she's being "kept alive" elides what's actually happening. WhiskeyGrinder May 2025 #3
Yep. Solly Mack May 2025 #6
if I recall correctly, there was a similar case in texas, mwmisses4289 May 2025 #4
GOP aka Perverted control freaks blm May 2025 #5
This is nothing short of grotesque peggysue2 May 2025 #7
Democrats RJ-MacReady May 2025 #8
"Pro-life" is actually "Pro-pregnancy" and "Pro-punishment.". Ping Tung May 2025 #9
Kick Demovictory9 May 2025 #10
Doctors are concerned after discovering fluid on the baby's brain. Emile May 2025 #11
Let's not miss the financial incentives medical facilities have to keep brain dead breathing Attilatheblond May 2025 #12
You don't know if there is any financial incentives to this. LisaL May 2025 #17
How would they even bill for the treatment given after she died? Mariana May 2025 #18
Seriously doubt any hospital would eat the costs. Attilatheblond May 2025 #23
Will her insurance pay for keeping her alive the next 8 months? Bayard May 2025 #13
We don't even know if she had insurance. LisaL May 2025 #16
She was a nurse, so she probably did have insurance. Mariana May 2025 #20
The family may get stuck with part of that huge bill if she is uninsured Meowmee May 2025 #21
I would go with what she would have wanted. Frasier Balzov May 2025 #14
Per the current law, it doesn't matter what she would have wanted. LisaL May 2025 #15
Insane Meowmee May 2025 #19
I don't understand this Mz Pip May 2025 #22

JanMichael

(25,725 posts)
1. Twisted people. I wish there was a hell.
Sun May 18, 2025, 09:55 AM
May 2025

Since I don't that leaves some potential punishment on Earth.

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,166 posts)
3. Saying she's being "kept alive" elides what's actually happening.
Sun May 18, 2025, 10:09 AM
May 2025

She is dead and her body is being used as an incubator in a medical experiment she never consented to.

mwmisses4289

(3,092 posts)
4. if I recall correctly, there was a similar case in texas,
Sun May 18, 2025, 10:19 AM
May 2025

(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.

peggysue2

(12,369 posts)
7. This is nothing short of grotesque
Sun May 18, 2025, 10:48 AM
May 2025

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)
8. Democrats
Sun May 18, 2025, 10:50 AM
May 2025

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)
9. "Pro-life" is actually "Pro-pregnancy" and "Pro-punishment.".
Sun May 18, 2025, 10:54 AM
May 2025
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine

Emile

(40,314 posts)
11. Doctors are concerned after discovering fluid on the baby's brain.
Sun May 18, 2025, 12:03 PM
May 2025

This is just more sick religiously insane bs.

Attilatheblond

(8,142 posts)
12. Let's not miss the financial incentives medical facilities have to keep brain dead breathing
Sun May 18, 2025, 12:14 PM
May 2025

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)
17. You don't know if there is any financial incentives to this.
Sun May 18, 2025, 01:41 PM
May 2025

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)
18. How would they even bill for the treatment given after she died?
Sun May 18, 2025, 02:43 PM
May 2025

She certainly didn't consent to it.

Bayard

(28,358 posts)
13. Will her insurance pay for keeping her alive the next 8 months?
Sun May 18, 2025, 12:31 PM
May 2025

I'm thinking the minute they stop, this woman will be cut loose.

LisaL

(47,343 posts)
16. We don't even know if she had insurance.
Sun May 18, 2025, 01:40 PM
May 2025

The hospital won't cut her loose, insurance or not, as long as she is incubating the fetus.

Mariana

(15,612 posts)
20. She was a nurse, so she probably did have insurance.
Sun May 18, 2025, 02:47 PM
May 2025

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)
21. The family may get stuck with part of that huge bill if she is uninsured
Sun May 18, 2025, 02:49 PM
May 2025

Or even if she is. They could try suing the hospital or the state for compensation.

Frasier Balzov

(4,828 posts)
14. I would go with what she would have wanted.
Sun May 18, 2025, 12:34 PM
May 2025

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)
15. Per the current law, it doesn't matter what she would have wanted.
Sun May 18, 2025, 01:39 PM
May 2025

She is incubating the fetus, that's all there is to it per the GA law that prohibits abortions.

Mz Pip

(28,335 posts)
22. I don't understand this
Sun May 18, 2025, 02:50 PM
May 2025

There would have been no abortion involved. The woman died and her fetus would have died along with her without this macabre intervention.

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