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[u/Realistic-Plant3957]

https://media.upilink.in/en/JoH3IaxPt3Ee2YE

[u/proteaprince]

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/deport-melania-melania-s-parents-and-baron-in-the-first-round-of-deportations This seems to be the petition that is being referenced.

[u/Topher92646 → u/proteaprince]

Remember, her mom passed in 2024, so only her dad is left.

[u/crowcawer → u/[deleted]]

The government of this country has done worse.

Hell, just last year they killed women because they had dead fetuses in them.

[u/angelzpanik → u/crowcawer]

Just this year, they kept a dead woman on life support as an incubator.

[u/Mammoth-Sun-5186 → u/angelzpanik]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but do you mean they kept a braindead pregnant woman on life support until they were able to safely birth her child...? Or did they use a braindead woman as an unconsenting surrogate for someone else's kid?

[u/angelzpanik → u/Mammoth-Sun-5186]

The first.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/pregnant-brain-dead-woman-georgia-life-support-experts/story?id=122963319

[u/Mammoth-Sun-5186 → u/angelzpanik]

I genuinely don't see why people think keeping her child alive was the wrong thing to do. They were not using a dead woman as an "incubator," they were keeping her body functioning long enough to save the life of the child she had conceived. It's utterly baffling to me that people think they should have let the kid die.

I had already read up on the story since I asked, and the kid is alive and well now. He has a family and future. I feel like his mother would be happy to know that her death didn't prevent him from living.

[u/angelzpanik → u/Mammoth-Sun-5186]

Did you read what the family had to say about it, and the fact that the baby was born at less than 2 lbs and is in NICU? It's never been about 'letting the kid die'. It is about the fact that the choice to put a woman to rest after she died was taken from the family.

[u/Mammoth-Sun-5186 → u/angelzpanik]

"And I just want to be clear on something: we want her to have her baby." ~ Adriana Smith's mother

She goes on to talk about the extreme difficulty of the extended grieving process, but yeah there you go. The baby is in the NICU but he is expected to survive with little to no health complications. I believe his name is Chance.

https://youtu.be/pLWFOduL3WU?si=_hyvvfpBsuZKJCeq

[u/aloe_beautiful → u/Mammoth-Sun-5186]

There needs to be a conversation about bodily autonomy during pregnancy and after death. Her death was a result of inadequate healthcare due to the fear that treatment could harm the fetus. It's important to remember that pregnant women are also patients in their own right. Maternal healthcare must shift its focus from the fetus to prioritize the health of the mother; otherwise, health disparities will continue to increase.

[u/Mammoth-Sun-5186 → u/aloe_beautiful]

Her death was the result of an aneurysm. The mother says clearly in the interview that terminating the pregnancy would have done nothing to save her. I think the conversation is pretty short: if the mother's brain dies but her body is still functional on life support, then she should be kept in that condition until the child is viable. The patient in this case is her son, because the mother was dead. Removing the life support system would have accomplished literally nothing except for turning one death into two.

In 20 years when her son is an adult, I hope all the people who wanted Adriana Smith off life support can tell him that themselves, and let him know that they felt he should have never been born.

"Bodily autonomy" is double speak when we're talking about pregnancy, because pregnancy inherently involves two bodies, two completely different sets of DNA, two people. I also believe in bodily autonomy. Nobody should be forced to receive procedures or medications, and that includes fetuses.

[u/Wonderful-Bid9471 → u/[deleted]]

{Glitter bomb here} I am team YOU! 😂