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

[RoshawnMarkwees]

And you mentioned fatherless children which have nothing to do with this. Neither does race. Try to keep up.

Fatherless children have everything to do with fathers.

 

[Rawley]

Hmm, 2 things. They plan on keeping her alive for 21 weeks to make sure the baby can live on its own outside the womb? They aren't even sure if the baby will live, but keeping the woman "alive" for 21 weeks (5 MONTHS!!) is immoral, IMO.

2, if the hospital are the ones keeping her alive, or the state, this woman shouldn't be having any bills mounting. It's not her fault they are keeping her daughter alive.

See, this is one of those areas where I think doing the right thing should take precedent.

So killing the baby is the right thing?

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

So killing the baby is the right thing?

It used to be that abortion was OK if necessary to save the mother’s life. Apparently now it’s OK if aiding the mother’s death.

 

[Bootstraps]

Fatherless children have everything to do with fathers.

Not in this thread. Start your own and we can talk there.

 

[ThisIsMe]

So killing the baby is the right thing?

No, it's not, but at 9 weeks,you have to weigh the issues. Keeping a brain dead woman alive for up to 5 months is just wrong. Then, what happens at 21 weeks if the doctors say that removing the baby at that point would cause too much risk to the baby, it couldn't survive in its own outside the womb. The woman will need to carry it to full term, and even then, it's not guaranteed the child would survive.

So, keeping a brain dead woman alive for up to 9 months in order to save a baby, who may not live. It's not a good situation either way. I'm looking at the morality of keeping the brain dead woman alive for 9 months... thats wrong, and devastating for the family.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Good. Bring the baby to term, perform a cesarean...and pull the plug. The grandmother should want to keep the only part of her daughter which will live on.

This is the part of the story that I find unbelievable. I cannot fathom a mother that would abort the child of a deceased daughter or consider the grandchild a torture..

 

[Blackrook]

Zinc, you're fucked up in the head if you think that unborn baby should be killed.

 

[Tyrion234]

With the pregnancy that adds a question,
So its not like the last time the GOP kept a brain dead woman alive for political reasons.

The left kept a brain dead man alive as president for political reasons

 

[Superbadbrutha]

What's sad is the MAGA trash will whine when this child is born and the grandmother starts getting WIC, food stamps and any other Federal Assistance.

 

[Zincwarrior]

What's sad is the MAGA trash will whine when this child is born and the grandmother starts getting WIC, food stamps and any other Federal Assistance.

Not under the current budget proposals she won't.

 

[TNHarley]

This is why I am pro choice.
The government has absolutely NO BUSINESS being involved in this shit.
Ridiculous.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Why would she want to kill her grandbaby?

Especially when her daughter is dead. Parents hang on to anything they can of a deceased child, a lock of hair a favorite anything. To kill off the baby of a deceased child is beyond the pale.

 

[sealybobo]

Brain dead Georgia pregnant woman is being forced by the state to remain on life support because of state's ban on abortions. The hospital is keeping her body functioning until the baby can be born despite the wishes of her family.

[H1]Georgia mother says she is being forced to keep brain-dead pregnant daughter alive under abortion ban law[/H1]
"It's torture for me," April Newkirk said. "I see my daughter breathing, but she's not there."

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

“It’s torture for me,” April Newkirk said. “I see my daughter breathing, but she’s not there.”

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A Florida Republican’s response to her life-threatening experience with ectopic pregnancy highlights the problem with the GOP’s understanding of reproductive health and freedom.
In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, Rep. Kat Cammack shared how medical professionals delayed giving her the shot of methotrexate needed to terminate her nonviable ectopic pregnancy last May due to concerns about the legal consequences under Florida’s six-week abortion ban.

Cammack blamed the dangerous delay in treatment on messaging from the left.
“It was absolute fearmongering at its worst,” she said.

Cammack’s experience and her characterization of the issue underscores the GOP’s misunderstanding of pregnancy complications and the very real consequences of anti-abortion legislation.

In 2019, Republican legislators in Ohio introduced a bill that threatened doctors with prosecution for “abortion murder” if they did not take steps to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy” into the uterus ― a procedure that is not medically possible. Three years later, a GOP state representative in Missouri put forth legislation that would make it a felony to terminate an ectopic pregnancy.

Although those bills did not ultimately become law, other anti-abortion legislation has curtailed access to life-saving treatment for ectopic pregnancies.

Many abortion bans, like the Florida ban, use broad language defining abortion as ending a pregnancy in any way other than birth. That kind of definition leaves room for the criminalization of ectopic pregnancy treatment, forcing health providers and administrators to tread carefully.

 

[martybegan]

A Florida Republican’s response to her life-threatening experience with ectopic pregnancy highlights the problem with the GOP’s understanding of reproductive health and freedom.
In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, Rep. Kat Cammack shared how medical professionals delayed giving her the shot of methotrexate needed to terminate her nonviable ectopic pregnancy last May due to concerns about the legal consequences under Florida’s six-week abortion ban.

Cammack blamed the dangerous delay in treatment on messaging from the left.
“It was absolute fearmongering at its worst,” she said.

Cammack’s experience and her characterization of the issue underscores the GOP’s misunderstanding of pregnancy complications and the very real consequences of anti-abortion legislation.

In 2019, Republican legislators in Ohio introduced a bill that threatened doctors with prosecution for “abortion murder” if they did not take steps to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy” into the uterus ― a procedure that is not medically possible. Three years later, a GOP state representative in Missouri put forth legislation that would make it a felony to terminate an ectopic pregnancy.

Although those bills did not ultimately become law, other anti-abortion legislation has curtailed access to life-saving treatment for ectopic pregnancies.

Many abortion bans, like the Florida ban, use broad language defining abortion as ending a pregnancy in any way other than birth. That kind of definition leaves room for the criminalization of ectopic pregnancy treatment, forcing health providers and administrators to tread carefully.

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Those concerns are bullshit attempts by the caregivers to make people think the law says something it doesn't.

It leaves not such room as your statement claims. It's a position taken by those who want zero regulation on abortions.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

martybegan is in the parking lot thinking he is playing second base.

He has no understanding whatsoever of this situation.

 

[sealybobo]

Those concerns are bullshit attempts by the caregivers to make people think the law says something it doesn't.

It leaves not such room as your statement claims. It's a position taken by those who want zero regulation on abortions.

Well, sorry but those doctors are right to be worried. Especially when a anti abortion doctor comes in wanting you to terminate her pregnancy. Is this a setup? LOL

 

[martybegan]

Well, sorry but those doctors are right to be worried. Especially when a anti abortion doctor comes in wanting you to terminate her pregnancy. Is this a setup? LOL

They are drama queens, and they are putting women at risk for a political agenda.

Removing an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion.

 

[sealybobo]

martybegan is in the parking lot thinking he is playing second base.

He has no understanding whatsoever of this situation.

I go to abortion protests to meet women. You know no virgin is picketing at an abortion clinic, right? In fact most protesters outside an abortion clinic are former patients of the clinic who regret what they did. But if they had to do it all over again, they would. Because "the only moral abortion is mine". Everyone else should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[martybegan]

I go to abortion protests to meet women. You know no virgin is picketing at an abortion clinic, right? In fact most protesters outside an abortion clinic are former patients of the clinic who regret what they did. But if they had to do it all over again, they would. Because "the only moral abortion is mine". Everyone else should be ashamed of themselves.

This is the leading contender for dumbest post chain in 2025.

You guys are about to create a singularity of stupidity.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

They are drama queens, and they are putting women at risk for a political agenda.

Removing an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion.

It's termination of a pregnancy, an abortion.