By Maya T. Prabhu
Atlanta Journal constitution
Atlanta-Die mother of a woman from the Atlanta region says that her pregnant daughter was declared brain tose more than three months ago, but the abortion law of the state has led doctors to keep the woman in life support.
Adriana Smith, a nurse at the Emory University Hospital, has lived in the hospital since the beginning of February after her boyfriend grabbed air for air, according to Atlanta TV Station, and made a struggling noise in her sleep.
Smith was nine weeks pregnant at that time.
April Newkirk, Smith's mother, told the television station that a CT scan had found several blood clots in Smith's brain, and the doctors later declared them to be the brain. When Newkirk was reached by phone on Thursday, he refused to be interviewed by a reporter by Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In a statement, hospital representatives said that the federal data protection laws prevent them from commenting on individual patients.
“Emory healthcare uses consensus from clinical experts, medical literature and legal guidelines to support our providers because they submit individual treatment recommendations based on the abortion laws and all other applicable laws in Georgia,” says the explanation of the hospital. “Our top priorities are still the security and well -being of the patients we serve.”
Activists and providers of abortion rights say that the unclear abortion law in Georgia will continue to lead to tragic situations in legal gray areas.
Monica Simpson, Executive Director of the abortion rights organization Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, said that Smith's situation was the result of several factors, including the high mothers -mortity rate of Georgia and the State's abortion law. Sister has sued the state for its abortion law.
“Firstly, Adriana deserves to be familiar with her members of the health professions. Secondly, her family deserves the right to have a decision -making authority on her medical decisions,” said Simpson. “Instead, you have over 90 days of new dreamization, expensive medical costs and cruelty, not able to be able to not be able to remember and move towards healing.”
Smith had gone to another hospital the day before and complained about severe headaches. Newkirk said her daughter was sent home with medication according to 11 alive.
Since the 30 -year -old Smith was nine weeks pregnant at that time and the embryo had a demonstrable cardiac activity, Newkirk said that doctors had kept Smith on life maintenance for more than 90 days.
Georgia's law prohibits most abortions after medical specialists can capture the cardiac activity of the fetus, which is typically in about six weeks of pregnancy, and before many know that they are pregnant. Later abortions are permitted in limited cases, e.g. B. if there is a fetal anomaly or if the mother's life is endangered. There are also exceptions in cases of rape or incest when a police report has been submitted.
But Newkirk said because her daughter is already brain dead and not “endangered”, the doctors told her that the law demands that you will work Smith's body until the fetus probably survived around 32 weeks of pregnancy outside of the womb. Newkirk said Smith was currently 21 weeks pregnant.
She said 11 alive that the abortion law in Georgia had taken away Smith's family's ability to decide how to tackle their health.
Newkirk told the television station that she fears not only about the emotional tribute of her family, including Smith's little son, but also about the medical costs to keep her daughter's body alive in order to further expand the fetus. She said doctors told her that the brain of the fetus contains liquid, and it was unclear whether there would be health complications after birth.
The Senator Ed Settler, a Republican of Acworth, who sponsored the abortion law in Georgia, said he was grateful if this leads to the birth of a healthy adult.
“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.”
For years, supporters and providers of abortion rights have stated that the law of Georgia is unclear, since a large part of the language used is not medical. For example, the law states that abortions can occur when the mother experiences a “medical emergency”, but doctors say that this is difficult to interpret because there is no light limit between a person and the risk of death.
A survey under Georgia Ob-Gyns, which was recently carried out by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynetrics and Gynecology in connection with the democratic US Senator Jon Ossoff, showed that they have personally joined for cases in which care had to be delayed, which has been delayed by the law for the office hours to cause the law of the state for the department for the cancellation of the cancellation in the law of the department for the acceptance of the right of rejection.
