The strict abortion laws in the United States have again caused excitement. In Georgia, a pregnant woman has been artificially ventilated since her brain death because, according to her family, the clinic does not want to violate the strict law in the US state.
The mother of 30-year-old Adriana Smith, April Newkirk, said that in the local WXIA TV station the decision to keep her daughter artificial was taken exclusively by the hospital. “This decision should have been left to us,” she said.
Smith, a nurse and mother of a son, had a serious headache in February when she was pregnant in the ninth week. She went to the hospital, but was sent back with a recipe for medication. The next morning she was admitted to the hospital with different blood clots in the brain, the doctors declared her for brain death.
What does the law say?
In Georgia, abortions are prohibited after the sixth week of pregnancy: the so -called heart rate law prohibits pregnancy subsections from the first measurable heart rate of the fetus. This is the case in the sixth week of pregnancy.
Because Smith was in the ninth week of pregnancy, the doctors lived artificially according to the mother in order not to violate the law. Smith is now in the 21st week of pregnancy.
“I am not saying that we have decided to demolish your pregnancy. I just say: we should have had the choice,” said Newkirk. According to their information, the doctors are not sure whether the pregnancy runs without complications and can be maintained until the baby is born.
What do experts say?
Professor Katie Watson of Northwestern University, who specializes in ethics and reproductive medicine, said the AFP press office on Friday that the strict Abortion Act in Georgia did not apply to a case like Smith.
The law does not forbid “to place the fan to a brain -dead person” – “Even if the person is pregnant at the time of his death”. If the information from the family was correct, “the hospital interpreted the abortion law incorrectly,” said Watson. The Emory Healthcare hospital group initially did not give a statement at the request of AFP.
Politicians from the opposition democrats and proponents of abortion reacted indignantly. Everyone must be able to decide freely: “What is best for their families, future and life,” said the Democratic Congress Member of Nikema Williams from Georgia (see Tweet below). She threw US President Donald Trump and the Republican governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, to “add” unbelievable suffering “.
“It is fatal to be black and pregnant in a state in which reproductive care is limited and criminalized,” says Monica Simpson from the Sister Song organization, which is committed to the reproductive rights of black people.
Watches were returned to the US.
The strict right of abortion in Georgia came into force in 2022 after the United States Supreme Court had aborted the national right to abortion. Since then, the responsibility for the right to abortion among the individual states has been. In his first term (2017-21), Trump had appointed three conservative judges for the Supreme Court, who significantly changed the power relationships at the Supreme Court in favor of the conservatives and the decision against the national right to abortion.
Source: Krone
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