General Discussion

The truth is that a child born that prematurely and having gestated in the body of a brain-dead mother--despite ALL of the massive strides we have made in neonatal care--is at risk throughout childhood and even into adulthood for issues related to that prematurity and its adverse impact on developing organs. Whether that be overt congenital defects or kidneys or other organs that are perfused by less than optimal blood flow-- or any number of other structural or developmental issues that may be detected only as the body is put at stress for one reason or another--such dramatic impacts on the growing fetus within a brain-dead mother are being ignored and discounted. This is reprehensible.

The family of that poor woman was given no choice. I can only hope that they have a lawyer fully capable of fighting the state of GA and Emory University Hospital against being forced to pay the exorbitant bill required for care they never approved nor requested for their brain-dead child, necessitated by cruel anti-abortion laws.