Georgia’s abortion ban is forcing Adriana’s family — against their wishes — to keep her body on a ventilator for 7 months to incubate the fetus.
Quote:Abortion Law Forces Doctors to Keep Pregnant Brain Dead Woman Alive
Adriana Smith, 30, a mother and registered nurse from Atlanta, was almost nine weeks pregnant in early February when it was discovered that she had blood clots in her brain, according to WXIA-TV in Atlanta.
Smith was declared brain dead and, as of today, has been hooked to life-saving machines for more than 90 days.
Doctors are supposedly waiting until the fetus is at 32 weeks gestation, which is months from now, as Smith is currently 21 weeks pregnant. Doctors have reportedly told her family that under Georgia's heartbeat law, they are legally required to maintain life support until the fetus reaches viability.
Newkirk told WXIA-TV that the decision has caused trauma for their family—both in terms of Smith's condition and the baby's health. Doctors have her that the baby, a male, has an unknown amount of fluid on the brain.
"She's pregnant with my grandson," Newkirk said. "But he may be blind, may not be able to walk, may not survive once he's born."
"This decision should've been left to us. Now we're left wondering what kind of life he'll have—and we're going to be the ones raising him."
https://www.newsweek.com/abortion-braind...ia-2072283
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
