A pregnant woman remained in the brain alive in Georgia. It is not clear whether the state law requires this.
A woman from Georgia declared fatal brain and continued to support life for more than three months because she was removed from the artificial respiratory system in June and died, days after doctors surrendered her 13 -year -old child through the Caesarean section in emergency situations. The child is in the intensive care unit for newborns.
The issue drew the national attention to the ban on abortion for six weeks in Georgia and its effects on pregnancy.
Adriana Smith was placed on life support at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in February. She was the 30 -year -old Atlanta nurse More than eight weeks Pregnant and suffering serious complications.
Smith’s mother said that her condition deteriorated when doctors tried to save her life Atlanta Wxia TV station.
“They have examined CT scan, and she had bloody clots in her head,” Nickeck said in April. “So they asked me if they could do a procedure to relieve them, and I said yes. Then they called me and said they could not do that.”
She said that the doctors announced that Smith was dead and put it on supporting life without consulting it.
“I do not say that we would have chosen to end her pregnancy, but what I am saying was, we should have had a choice,” said Newkerck.
Emory Healthcare refused to comment on the details of the Smith case. After doctors removed Smith from life support, Emori issued a statement.
The health system said: “The higher priorities in Emory Healthcare are still the safety and welfare of the patients and families that we serve.” “Emory Healthcare uses a consensus of clinical experts, medical literature and legal guidance to support our service providers while providing medical recommendations. Emory health care is legally required to maintain the confidentiality of healthy health information for our patients, and for this reason we cannot comment on individual issues and conditions.”
In a previous statement, Emory Healthcare said it corresponds to “the laws of abortion in Georgia and all other applicable laws.”
The laws of abortion and the personality of the fetus
Georgia HB 481 – Equity and equality between living children, or work – was approved in 2019. It was approved shortly after the US Supreme Court turned around Ro against a valley By ruling in Dobbs Against the Women’s Health Organization Jackson On June 24, 2022.
The law prohibits abortion after the point where ultrasound can be discovered Heart activity in Jenin. This usually happens about six weeks of pregnancy, often before women know that they are pregnant.
The law also gave the embryos the same rights.
“Children who have not been born yet from a category of living, and distinguished people” and that Georgia “is aware of the benefits of providing fully legal recognition of an unborn child.”
Nine states now prohibit abortion in or 19 weeks before pregnancy; 13 of them have a almost complete ban on all miscarriages with very limited exceptions, according to L. Goette InstituteA non -partisan research group that supports abortion rights.
Like Georgia, some of these countries have built their restrictions on abortion on the legal concept of “personality”, which gives legal rights and protection on the fetus or fetus during pregnancy.
The Smith case represented a major test of how this type of law is applied in some medical situations.
Although they are mainly unified in their opposition to abortion, the conservatives and politicians in Georgia do not publicly agree on the scale of the law on cases such as Smith.
For example, Georgia Public Prosecutor Chris CarA Republican said that the law should not restrict care options in a case like Smith and that removing life support will not be equivalent to the abortion of the fetus.
“There is nothing in the law of life that requires medical professionals to keep a woman to support life after the death of the brain,” Car said in a statement. “Removing life support is not a measure” with the aim of ending pregnancy. “
But the Republican state Senator Ed willWho composed the Law of Life, an opponent. Emory doctors behave appropriately when they put Smith to support life, it is He said R.It is the Associated Press.
“I think it is quite appropriate for the hospital to do what he can to save the child’s life,” said Sitzler. “I think this is an unusual circumstance, but I think it highlights the value of a person’s innocent life. I think the hospital is acting appropriately.”
Mary Zieglerand The law professor at the University of California Davis and author of the book “Personality: The New Civil War on Reproduction” said that the problem is that the law of Georgia is not just a ban on abortion. It is a personal law that declares that the fetus or fetus is a person, and that “a child has not yet been born”, as the law puts, is a person. “
The legal concept of “personality” has effects that exceed the care of miscarriage, as is the case with the regulation of fertility therapy, or a potential criminalization of complications of pregnancy such as salvation and miscarriage.
Under the Georgia Law, the expansion of personality rights to the fetus changes how to calculate the child’s support. It also allows the claim to a fetus or fetus to depend on it depends on state taxes.
Ziegler said that the idea of the character is not new.
“She said: For everyone, it has been the goal of the abortion control movement since the 1960s. This does not mean that Republicans like that. This does not necessarily mean that this will happen. But there is no daylight between the movement of abortion and the movement of personality. They are the same. “
Personal movement has gained more traction since Dobbs Judgment in 2022.
In Alabama, after the state’s Supreme Court ruled that frozen fetuses were people, the state legislative body had to intervene to allow fertility clinics to continue their work.
“This is a kind of future that we look if we move towards the personality of the fetus,” Ziegler said. She said, in reference to the personal laws elsewhere.
Fetal personal laws can delay care
In Georgia, dozens of OB-Gyns said that the law interferes with patient care-in a state where Mother’s deaths an average It is one of the worst in the United States and that black women are more than twice the weakness of a white -related issue.
Georgia members Mothers Matters Review Committee – Those who were later rejected from the committee – linking the abortion ban in the state to delaying emergency care and the death of at least two women in the state, such as PROPUBLICA reportMr. Dr.
OB-Gyn said that the personality condition has a profound impact on medical care Zoe Lucir Julian.
“These laws create an environment of fear and try to force us as providers to agree with the state, instead of compatible with our patients that we are working hard to serve,” said Lucir Julian.
Lucir Julian said this is what happened to care for Emouri’s health in the Smith case.
Cole MozioThe head of the Policy Council in the confrontation lines, a conservative Christian group, said that the state abortion law should not affect how Emuri dealt with Smith’s care.
“This is a very clear case, in terms of how it is defined in HB 481,” he said. “What this ban is miscarriage after the discovery of the heartbeat. This is the scope of our law.”
“Taking a woman from supporting life is not a miscarriage. It is not. Now, I am very grateful because this child will be born even in the midst of tragic conditions. This is a complete human life that will be able to live because of the sacrifices of this beautiful mother.”
A Georgia’s law challenge lawsuit And its impact on public health works on its way through the courts. An alliance of doctors, the American Civil Liberties Union in Georgia, Family Organization, Reproductive Rights Center, and other collections of the lawsuit.
New Kyker said that her daughter had initially gone to a different hospital in the Atlanta area for severe headache assistance, and he was given some medications, and she was sent to the house, where her symptoms deteriorated quickly.
She told WXIA in May: “She was panting for the air in her sleep, and gargling,” she told WXIA in May. “More than possible, the blood was.”
Now, Newkerck said that the family is praying for its grandson to make it after stress from months of supporting life.
She said he is fighting.
She said, “My grandson may be blind, and he may not be able to walk, in a wheelchair.” “We don’t know if he will live.”
She added that the family will love him, whatever the matter.
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