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. :|

    • TheHiddenCatboyOP
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      112 months ago

      I just want to know what’s going through the head of the lonely single downvoter you have at the time of this post. What sort of horrific mindset would prompt them to vote your comment down. Does this shithead think that this ISN’T a case of a baby being gestated in the body of his/her dead mother? Or does this shithead think that gestating babies in the corpses of dead mothers kept alive by technology at great expense is a good thing?

      What an awful person, this downvoter.

        • TheHiddenCatboyOP
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          12 months ago

          I think we found the downvoter. 🤣

          That said, nah, I upvoted the comment. And it’s now 195 to 1. I’d say that downvoter should really think they’re stupid, but then I remember how confidently stupid Trumpers act, and how smart they say they are. :)

  • @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    A mother and wife lost because the hospital wanted to skimp out on the diagnostic that might have saved her.

    An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

    … And private healthcare is highly incentivized to cause you to not be able to access that inexpensive ounce of prevention, so that you are forced to pay exorbitantly for the pound of cure.

    This is what you get when you let the profit motive run the health care sector.

    It is a giant, ghoullish, money extraction machine, because ‘shareholder value.’

    Everthing is backwards, bizzaro world… on purpose.

    It is working as intended.

    It is intended to make money.

  • IninewCrow
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    392 months ago

    No one cares about the dead mother … no one will care about the child after its born

    The unborn baby is at its peak right now because once it comes into this world … absolutely no one will give a shit about it

  • @Aldryn@lemm.ee
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    Let the mother rest. Her care was already botched by the lack of evaluation when she went to the hospital. She should not be expected to carry her son for any length of time. This is wildly disrespectful to her and the family.

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      Being black and going to the hospital for an emergency is scary! Are you going to get the doctor that secretly hates black people or a doctor that still believes black people have higher pain tolerance so no need for local anesthesia.

    • gimpchrist
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      She’s not carrying it… she’s dead… they are growing a baby inside of a corpse… which will not be very good for the development of the baby let me tell you… it’s almost like you need a living body to properly transfer nutrients to a growing human being but they’ll find out… they will find the fuck out. This is a fucking Horror Show

  • @RedFrank24@lemmy.world
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    Adriana Smith, a registered nurse at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, was about 9 weeks pregnant when she started having bad headaches in February. The 30-year-old went to Northside Hospital for help but was released after being given medication, according to her mother, April Newkirk.

    From the headline I thought it was a situation where she was brain dead and it was 6 months in and the foetus only needed a little while longer to become viable and, so long as she wanted the child, they could maybe have kept it going until they could prepare for all the necessary care a severely premature baby would need. 9 weeks though?! That’s absurd. That’s just pigheaded stupidity!

    Someone should sneak in and pull the plug, or the family should withdraw consent to treatment or something (I don’t know the laws).

    • @ChexMax@lemmy.world
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      Pretty sure that’s the point, that the family isn’t allowed to withdraw consent due to the insane “abortion” laws. This is so far past abortion. America is disgusting and grotesque.

  • @SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    Why stop after that.

    I’m sure her corpse could pump out at least one more before she flatlined.

    Or are we going to deny those potential babies the right to life?

    /S

  • Maeve
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    I have a very disturbing thought: besides politicians, hospitals, executives, board are making money. If the family can’t pay, hit to credit and outcast as degenerate bill dodgers.

    So many people plan to profit, financially, legally, politically. "Christian Nation,” “Family values.”

    I wonder if we’ll get new and improved slave bibles.

    • @Xaphanos@lemmy.world
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      62 months ago

      Extending on your thoughts…

      If the father doesn’t sign the B.C., the kid is a ward of the state. That’s a decent way to siphon lots of taxpayer money into the pockets of that same list for years to come. Condemning that poor kid to extended suffering.

      Also, who will pay for the care given until the birth? I’m going to assume that the hospital is insured against public care situations. I can easily imagine pushback from insurance companies about the impact of this policy. If they refuse to pay, the hospital has some very mixed incentives. That alone can lead to pressure to fix things. If it becomes profit or conservative morality, I expect that profit will win out.

      • Maeve
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        conservative morality

        • To the devil with you, hurrah for me.
    • @CalipherJones@lemmy.world
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      52 months ago

      Then when they end up on the street they’re homeless, and homeless people don’t matter ☺️ /s but also people really don’t give a fuck about homeless people.

    • TheHiddenCatboyOP
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      18 days ago

      It’s actually very easy to write Cyberpunk fiction these days. Just read the news and plot after plot after plot after plot after plot…