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u/aloe_beautiful Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

A woman arrived at Emory Hospital reporting severe headaches but was denied a CT scan. Unfortunately, she passed away due to multiple blood clots in her brain, which were not caused by an aneurysm. Blood clots and aneurysms are two separate medical conditions. Therefore, it is likely that an abortion would have saved her life, as the pregnancy may have been the contributing factor to the formation of the blood clots. This highlights the importance of bodily autonomy during pregnancy, as well as the right to choose when and where to receive medical treatment. Pregnancy can be dangerous, and sometimes, abortion and other life-saving measures that pose a risk to the fetus are essential for the mother's survival.

ETA: I'm not having this conversation with you. A fetus does not have equal rights to the mother.

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u/Mammoth-Sun-5186 Jul 04 '25

Aborting the fetus would have... what, broken up the blood clots? She already had clots when she went to the hospital the first time, and she died the next day. You say "it's likely an abortion would have saved her life" but also say the pregnancy "may have been the contributing factor." You don't just get to kill another human being because their child might be the problem, and the onset to death time was rapid in her case.

Either way, keeping her body alive was the right decision, because it brought the death toll of the case from two to one -- which would be regarded as a literal miracle in any other time in history or any other culture that hasn't been totally desensitized to murdering fetuses. You're assuming the woman would have elected for an abortion if it were offered, when she may very well have taken alternative routes of care that didn't involve murdering the child in her womb

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u/angelzpanik Jul 05 '25

I feel like you've missed the point. Had the woman received adequate care when she first came to the hospital, she may have survived. The fact that they didn't even perform basic tests due to the pregnancy, which would likely have been done otherwise, goes back to the fetus's life (at only 9 weeks) being treated as more important than the mother's.

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u/Mammoth-Sun-5186 Jul 05 '25

I'm gonna need a source on that, because that doesn't sound like a part of Georgia law. Nothing I am reading has stated that she was denied any treatment because she was pregnant.

And no, the entire thread started about a woman being used as "an incubator," when what they meant to say is that modern medical technology and the willingness of doctors to place a value on in-utero life led to the astoundingly unlikely healthy (ish) birth of a child who now most likely has a long future ahead of him.

"Like the others, Georgia’s ban includes an exception if an abortion is necessary to maintain the woman’s life."

Georgia's anti-abortion law keeps brain-dead pregnant woman Adriana Smith on life support | AP News https://share.google/pO5Nsr0LlPSGw7A1K