What is up with this thread? So many comments focused on issues completely unrelated to this terrible situation. I’m not really sure what y’all think they should’ve done. Just let the mom and baby die together?
Honestly, yeah. Pre-Dobbs and they would have been allowed that dignity. Mom has been dead for months now. The baby was not viable when she died. If the baby was viable when mom died a c section could be done. The family did not want her body kept alive for this.
The baby is also severely damaged and likely to need full-time care and live in suffering until it dies. It is less than 2lbs with severe brain damage.
Now that the hospital was forced to keep her artificially alive to deliver, the family must now pay for the expensive care of the premie baby without any support or ,afaik, Insurance to cover it.
GOP sure does care about babies in the womb… But I certainly they are born, fuck them, let them find some bootstraps
George Carlin said it best: ”Pre-born, you’re good. Pre-school, you’re fucked!"
That “soul” could’ve been incarnated in a better place instead of this… fucked up fascist place.
I immediately thought about Terry Schiavo.
What the headline actually means to MAGA: “The organic incubator has served its purpose in providing a new wage slave”
I’m surprised they aren’t keeping it around to see if they can get a couple more babies out of it.
Don’t worry. The “Christian Leadership” is ready and willing to get the child pregnant at the earliest opportunity. :(
You sure? The brain dead person was a fully grown woman, much too old for their tastes
Dune was supposed to be just a story. You weren’t supposed to bring this aspect of the books, or any aspect for that manner, into the real world.
American aristocrats crib all their ideas from the ‘rgis is bad, this is how you know these are the bad guys’ parts of scifi.
You don’t understand american politics until you’ve read ‘snow crash’.
Heard of that book from Quinns Ideas. I’ll add it to my list of reads.
Republicans harvesting fetuses and discarding the dead mothers. Deport republicans.
Into an active volcano
Seconded. It’s much better than what I had in mind, is ecologically responsible, and is entirely feasible.
Christianity is the preferred superstition of American terrorists.
Which is funny because the Bible says in multiple places that life begins at the first breath, and even has instructions for an abortion ritual if your wife cheated on you.
What gave you the impression that these fuckwits read the bible?
Nothing, that’s what makes it funny.
Which is funny
Everything about this is fucking hysterical
For as religious as they are, they sure do seem to love playing God.
Fucking ghouls.
Brain-dead since February. Can a healthy baby even be born in a situation like that?
So much of prenatal care impacts the child. The birth weight, for instance, seems abnormally low
Smith’s mother told local news that the baby weighs 1 pound and 13 ounces and will require care in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.
Yikes.
Then again, if she was 9 weeks in when she was declared brain-dead, and that was February, it’s still only June. The baby was not much further than 25 weeks along. I know these neonatal doctors and nurses are miracle workers, but that may be asking too much.
Jeez. I missed that detail.
If you just read the headline, you might even think this is reasonable. Hooray, we saved a baby!
But then you look into the details and it just gets worse and worse. I’m afraid for what will happen to this child.
I am not a doctor, let alone a NICU doctor or OB, but I’ve been wondering this whole time, how much fetal development is based on the mother’s movement throughout the day and gravity’s impact on the fetus? Especially that early in development. This whole situation has been so awful to hear about.
The baby is also severely brain damaged from the accident and unlikely to be any sort of normal. Like probably round the clock care to stay alive much less anything more complex per earlier reports. Was born at less than 2lb so its not even sure about survival yet.
Not just that, but other biological processes…and even sound. Babies recognize the sound of their mother’s voice from before they were born. And sounds from outside the womb (like language) too, IIRC.
Did I read that right? The baby is not quite 2 pounds? The people pushing for this kind of shit are savages
Time to unplug political life-support from the brain-dead legislators.
What horrors. We are monsters.
This happened in The Handmaid’s Tale
Sooo will the baby be riddled with the hospital fees?
Might make for a good horror movie. They keep her alive for further impregnation, creating a family town. At the end they find out that the great mother is some lady in a bed.
At the end they can say “based on a true story.”
That’s vaguely the plot for the X-files episode Home, not quite the same but I immediately thought of it. Only episode to receive a tv-ma rating.
