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Georgia mother says she is being forced to keep brain-dead pregnant daughter alive under abortion ban law

www.nbcnews.com

Newkirk said the family is also having to deal with the financial responsibility of keeping Smith on life support.

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Literally the fucking Handmaid’s Tale.
By the way, black women in the US are 3.5x more likely to die in childbirth than white women are. How do you think DOGE and RFK Jr’s research priories will impact that?
- How do you think DOGE and RFK Jr’s research priories will impact that?
  At a guess, they'll stop tracking the data?
  
  Do you think this kind of research will get funded?
  According to their analysis, the authors found the rates for pressure ulcers, perioperative pulmonary embolus/deep vein thrombosis, and sepsis were high in Black-serving hospitals. There were no significant differences regarding rates of failure to rescue between these hospitals and others.
  Notably, the research team found that Black-serving hospitals were slightly more likely than other hospitals to have a “Magnet” designation, which is a recognition bestowed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center to indicate a hospital has demonstrated a high standard of nursing excellence. This indicates that Black patient outcomes remain compromised even at hospitals with strong nursing resources, such as staffing and the work environment.
  
  My guess is that they'll start "researching" on more black women.
  3.5x more likely you say? They'd start chanting "knock her up" if not for the fear of white replacement.
This is a new level of evil.
- Oh, it gets better:
  The family is financially on the hook for the daughter’s hospital bill.
  Diagnostics have indicated that the fetus is developmentally compromised, and may not even survive the pregnancy.
  
  Why is the family responsible for the cost? The woman is over 18. Shouldn’t her insurance or Medicaid pay for it?
Goddamn anti choice proponents really have no empathy. Subjugation of women and people of color is the point. If it is cruel, they will do it.
- At least five women I can find have died so far from being denied reproductive health care - I believe almost all of them women of color. Three in Texas and two in Georgia.
  It really is about subjugation. And this specific case does tie into the fact that black women in the US frequently do not receive sufficient medical care:
  Monica Simpson, executive director of the organization SisterSong, said the first issue with Smith’s case is that she did not receive proper care when she sought help for her headaches.
Who is paying the bills? The pregnant woman was not a minor and not married? Seems like the hospital will be paying this.
- The last line of the article says that the family is responsible for the bills.
  
  If the woman is an adult, the family can simply tell them to go fuck themselves. There is no such thing as debt inheritance with the exception of with spouses because they are "one estate".
  
  I'd absolutely sue the state. They're forcing the mother to be kept on life support against the will of the family, they can foot the bill.
  
  I see that, but why?
Newkirk said the family is also having to deal with the financial responsibility of keeping Smith on life support.
Here, in addition to everything else, have some crushing medical debt.
Another reminder that if you are in the US and have medical care options aside from a Catholic or Christian hospital system, change your primary care to an institution that supports the full spectrum of reproductive health care. Tell the assholes that you are leaving exactly why you are leaving.
Welcome to Afghanistan.
- Pretty sure Afghanistan is more lenient on abortions.
  
  Well, they could literally execute her and it'd be more humane, in this case.
Why do they frame it as something the dead woman’s mother is saying?
When the reality is that specific republicans who passed the bill are the ones forcing a dead mother to be kept on life support with a fetus for 4-5 months.
Yeah Hello Women, as someone living in a state that votes in blue policies, please PLEASE try your best to move to one. Nobody deserves to live in a state where they pay taxes and contribute to society, that makes it ever so fucking clear it does not care about you. I know this isnt a good solution because moving requires money and resources but the faster this type of movement begins the faster we get to phase out these hellish, outdated republican policies for better more progressive ones.

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