Atlanta, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – The family of a pregnant metro woman in Atlanta explains that brain death claims that she is kept alive only to comply with Georgia's six -week abortion law.
According to information that the Adriana Smith family made available on a Gofundme campaign on Friday, Smith was raised to keep life after a medical incident in February. At that time, it was eight weeks pregnant, but the abortion law of Georgia, also referred to as a ban on heartbeat, blocks abortion proceedings after six weeks of pregnancy if a fetal heartbeat can be determined.
“Due to the expectation of her unborn child, she will be kept on life due to her heartbeat in Georgia,” says the Gofundme states, whose organizer April Newkirk, Smith's mother, was. “We didn't have this in relation to her lifeless body and her unborn child.”
Georgia's abortion ban, known as The Life Act, enables exceptions to the borders in rape, incest or when the mother's life is at stake.
Smith does not necessarily fit properly into one of these categories.
Newkirk called the situation “deeply sad and heartbreaking”.
In an explanation of Atlanta News, the Emory Hospital Midtown first found that they comply with Georgia's abortion law and “use consensus of clinical experts, medical literature and legal guidance to support our providers in submitting individual treatment recommendations.”
“Our top priorities are still the security and well -being of the patients we serve,” said the hospital in an explanation.
Emory Healthcare, who heads the hospital, did not explain how the doctors decided to keep Smith in life preservation, except in an explanation that they looked at “Georgia's abortion laws and all other applicable laws”.
Another statement by Georgia General Prosecutor, Chris Carr, contradicted what Smith's family had been communicated.
“Our prayers go to Adriana Smith's family in this difficult time,” said a spokesman for Carr's office. “There is nothing in the Life Act in which doctors have to keep a woman after the death of the brain.
In the course of its farewell, the law of life was extremely controversial when the legislators made state of the prerequisite to make Georgia one of the most restrictive states of the nation in the nation. Several interest groups warned of the unintentional consequences of such a restrictive policy.
“This is exactly what we spoke,” said Danielle Rodriguez, the coordinator of the state of Georgia for the sister song of the reproductive Rights Group. “I believe that this will be done continuously until the legislator gets up and the abortion ban cancel.”
Rodriguez said: “These are not isolated events. This happens continuously, we just don't know all of the stories.”
The situation, said Rodriguez, is deteriorated by the fact that Smith was sent home from two hospitals before suffering from the medical incident that landed to support her, her family confirmed on Friday.
“She should have heard first. So we say that we trust black women,” said Rodriguez. “It is scary because it could happen to one of us.”
The Senator Ed Settler (R-Acworth), who sponsored the Life Act and committed himself for the Life Act, welcomed the decision of the hospital to keep Smith kept alive until the baby can be delivered.
“I am grateful that the hospital recognizes the full value of the small human life that lives in this young mother, which is unfortunately dying,” he said. “Mindful of the Deep Pain of This Young Mother's Family, The Wisdom of Modern Medical Science to Be Deaf to Save of Hear Unborne Child is Something I am HopeFul in Future Years Will Lead to Great Joy, with Her Child Having A Chance Into Vibrant Adult Dood. I would be thoughtful If the Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act Played A Small Part In Taking the Tragedy, Unavoidable Death of this Young Mother and Allowing at Least One of the Two Lives Now Hanging in the balance.
David S. Cohen, professor at Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia at Drexel University, said that the hospital could be most concerned with part of the law that gives the Feten legal rights as “members of the Species Homo Sapien”.
Cohen said that Emory could therefore consider Smith and the fetus as two patients and that Smith, as soon as Smith was life support, had the legal obligation to keep the fetus alive even after she had died.
“This kind of cases that legal professors have spoken about for a long time when they talk about the personality of the fetus,” he said.
MP Nabilah Islam Parkes, a Democrat from the Atlanta region, said on Friday that she sent a letter to Attorney General Chris Carr and asked for a legal opinion on how Georgia's abortion law was applicable if a pregnant woman is brain fat.
Unequal access to the care of black women
It is not clear what Smith said when she went to the hospital or whether the care that was given was standard for her symptoms. But black women often do not complain seriously that their pain is not taken seriously, and an investigation by Associated Press showed that health results for black women are worse due to the circumstances in connection with racism and unequal access to care.
Monica Simpson, Executive Director of Sistersong, the senior plaintiff in a complaint that questioned the Abortion Act in Georgia, said: “Black women have to trust in our healthcare decisions.”
“Like so many black women, Adriana spoke for herself. She expressed what she felt in her body, and as a health service provider, she knew how she should navigate through the medical system,” said Simpson and noticed that Smith was already too late at the time of the diagnosis of “It was too late”.
It is unclear whether the clot in Smith's brain is related to their pregnancy.
But your situation is undoubtedly alarming for those who are looking for solutions for differences in the maternal mortality rate in black women. According to the centers for the control and prevention of diseases, black women had a mortality rate of 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023. This is more than three times the rate for white women and is higher than the rates for Hispanic and Asian women.
What is Smith's current situation?
While Smith is on a ventilator and probably other livelihood, it means that she is explained dead that it is dead.
Some experts refer to “life conservation” as “maintenance measures”, “organ support” or “somatic support”, which refer to the body that differs from the mind.
Emory has not made it public what is being done to be able to develop Smith's fetus further.
It is not clear whether Smith, whose mother said she was a nurse at the Emory University Hospital, health insurance.
Joann Volk, professor, founder and co-director of the Center for Health Insurance reforms at Georgetown University, said that it is generally due to the insurer for people with health insurance, whether the care is medically necessary and under the plan.
It is unclear how much it will cost to keep Smith in life support until the fetus can be delivered or who will be responsible for these costs, the Gofundme side of her mother mentions Smith's 7-year-old son and notes that the baby could have significant disabilities because it aims to collect $ 275,000.
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