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. :|
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.
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.
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.
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