In Georgia, a black pregnant woman said that a medical emergency is kept in life conservation for three months so that her fetus can develop-a procedure about which her family has received no other choice due to the strict law against abortion laws of the state.
According to the Associated Press, the case could become one of the longest persistent pregnancies of a brain -dead woman, whereby the due date is removed for months. The Atlanta family, Adriana Smith, says that they are powerless, as Georgia's abortion ban – triggered as soon as the fetal heart activity has been recognized, does not give them the right to decide whether life support should be continued.
Smith's family did not take any positions in public whether they wanted to terminate their life preservation, but their mother, April Newkirk, said 11alive that it had tightened their trauma.
Georgia's abortion law is part of a wave of restrictive abortion measures in conservative countries after the US Court of Justice had lifted Roe against Wade three years ago. Smith's case takes place at a time when black women in the state are disproportionately affected by the mother's health problems and the limited access to abortion.
In 2021, according to the centers for the control and prevention of diseases, Georgia had one of the highest mothers' mortality rates in the United States. In the same year, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health, there were more than twice as many deaths in connection with black and white women in the state in the same year. In addition, black residents of the state receive abortions at a higher speed than white residents: in 2023, about 66% of the abortions carried out in the state were black women.
How Smith got sick
The family founded a gofundme to cover the costs for Smith's medical care. Newkirk, the organizer of the Gofundme page, wrote that the situation was “deeply sad and heartbreaking”.
“Adriana has [a] 7 year old son and family … Who is broken and we ask for prayers and support during this time. Everything helps! “Newkirk pleads.
The page describes how Smith got sick. It is said that she complained about headaches days before visiting two hospitals, but received medication without tests or “proper exam”. It is said that Smith was no longer reacted later and was declared on February 19 for Hirntoll when she was only pregnant in two months.
The family has to wait months to find out whether the baby is born with severe disabilities.
How do managers react?
The US representative Nikema Williams, D-GA.
“Adriana Smith and her family earn better. For more than 90 days, their loved ones have been forced to endure their unnecessary medical interventions – not to be able to say goodbye to Adriana and are not able to make the decisions that should be theirs,” said Williams.
“Everyone deserves freedom to decide what is best for their families, futures and life. Instead, anti-abbreviation politicians like Donald Trump and Governor Brian Kemp are forcing people through unimaginable pain.”
Monica Simpson, Executive Director of Sistersong, a group of reproductive rights, said in a statement that Smith “deserved a healthy pregnancy”.
“It is fatal to be black and pregnant in a state in which reproductive care is limited and criminalized. Almost half of the counties in Georgia are reproductive feasts, while medical cuts are threatened to worsen access to care,” said Simpson.
“Black women have to trust in our healthcare decisions,” she added.
The Senator Ed Settler, a Republican of Acworth, who sponsored the abortion law in Georgia, defended it according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
“I am proud that the hospital recognizes the full value of small human life that lives in this young mother, which is unfortunately dying,” he said. “The wisdom of modern medical science that can save the life of a healthy, unborn child is something that I will be able to enjoy in the future years, since this child has the chance to grow into adulthood in order to save the life of a healthy unborn child.”
How to banned the abortion of black women from Georgia
Smith's case is less than a year after reports of two black women in Georgia, Candi Miller and Amber Nicole Thurman.
Miller and Thurman died after the Georgia's anti-abdominal law was introduced, which can be held responsible for women's deaths for women's death.
Miller was a 41-year-old mother of three children, whose chronic health problems threatened her unexpected pregnancy in 2022. The autopsy of a medical examiner could not determine the exact cause of Miller's death that came after taking abortion pills. However, the medical documents found that, according to Prublic, in which the family of Miller's family was led by Miller's family, in which the family of Miller's family was led, in which she had “no medical history of drug use”, according to Propublica, in which the Abbey Act in Georgia had refused, was found.
Thurman was a 28 -year -old aspiring nurse who died of a septic shock in August 2022 after doctors in North Carolina apparently able to carry out a dilatation and a curettage (D&C) process to remove the fetal tissue from their uterus after taking abortion pills in Georgia.
Stabutor Chauncey Alcorn contributed to this report.
This story has been updated.
