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Under his eye.
And they won't care at all after the kid is born. They are pro birth of factory workers, not pro life.
This law, misguided as it is, is based on the proposal that all life is sacred. With that is mind, I have a modest proposal.
Since the poor woman is brain dead and the hospital has no choice but to keep her alive, there are some ways they might, um... extend the benefits of keeping her alive beyond the immediate area of her uterus. Her bone marrow is constantly producing life saving blood, for example, so a "donation" every few days would do her no further harm at all and the blood banks are always in need.
She also has two functioning kidneys, I assume. She only needs one to be kept alive. Anyone who is pro-life should obviously support taking one of them and using it to save another person's life somewhere, in the USA of course. Now, some might suggest taking both kidneys and keeping her alive with dialysis but I think that would increase costs and reduce efficiency. I think the hospital should wait until nearer her due date before taking the second kidney. Likewise, she has two lungs. Obviously she doesn't need both so we can take one of those right off. Since she will never wake up again, her eyes are of no use to her anymore. Those should go to someone in need right away.
Skin is always needed for burn units and she has plenty. Now, it might seem cruel to just remove some of her skin, even if she can't feel pain anymore, but I have a solution for that too. Bones and other tissue are needed just as much as skin. I recommend the amputation of her legs and arms so that the skin, muscle, blood vessels, and bone tissue can all be used to save lives. It might be best to leave one of the arms for nearer her due date though since keeping it attached for now would make it easier for the nurses to maintain IVs and make those regular blood "donations".
This is just what I've come up with off the top of my head. I'm sure professionals in the industry could come up with other ideas. Hmm, actually, it occurs to me that medical professionals might not be inclined to aid in brainstorming more ideas like these as their college educations tend to leave them somewhat liberal thinking. Most likely the state legislature will have to get involved again and come up with more suggestions.
Top of my head? Brainstorming? The ideas just keep coming. Is there any use for her hair? She doesn't need that. What about her teeth? I know she's brain dead, but that doesn't mean there isn't some brain tissue that couldn't be harvested and put towards a good use without risking further harm to the most likely already non-viable fetus.
I think it's clear that this woman and fetus' misfortune can be turned to the good of us all. I think we should all contact the Georgia state legislature and demand that they take further pro-life steps in this matter. People are suffering and dying on organ donor wait lists and the legislature has the power to step in and demand that this woman's parts be put to life-saving use!
P.S. If the fetus does end up being brain dead too... well, we can put a pin in that for now.
Seems like a quite modest proposal, I'll be sure to write my M.D. senator right away requesting this level of pro-life commitment in my own state as well.
For those who only care about fetuses the logical conclusion is to lock up pregnant women and completely control every aspect of their lives. For safety of course.
Uh, I remember that part in The Handmaids Tale!
It's like a poorly written distopian scifi novel... but it's real.
Turns out that America is the origin of Dune’s Tleilaxu and their Axlotl Tanks.
The state is paying the hospital bill, right?
And college too, no doubt?
There’s an absolute PILE of horrifying and simultaneously fascinating medical ethics in play here. I wonder how hard they’re going to lean into “shareholder value” as the North Star here.
There’s nothing ethical about forcing her to carry a very likely non-viable fetus to term. They just began the second trimester and doctors say there is fluid on the fetus’s brain. The family has no say in the outcome.
and they have to pay for life support and hospital care 😔
And then the baby doesn't have a mother for its entire life if it lives.
And if the grandparents don't keep them, for any reason it becomes a massive tax burden on us for at minimum 18 years, entire life if the brain fluid makes them bedridden
Newkirk told WXIA that doctors told the family that the fetus has fluid on the brain and that they’re concerned about his health. “She’s pregnant with my grandson. But he may be blind, may not be able to walk, may not survive once he’s born,” Newkirk said. She has not said whether the family wants Smith removed from life support.
They do? Even though the state is forcing it?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-forced-keep-brain-dead-pregnant-woman-alive-rcna207002 at the end of this NBC article it states the family is responsible for life support even though they have no say in the matter. It's practically lose-lose for them
What happens if they just... don't pay?
Probably garnished wages? Idk; that’s insane, and moreover, it’s obviously insane, and I’m sure it would incite some people to explore extra-legal measures.
Send more blue shells.
Collections... sort of. You mostly just have to pay off the physicians and ignore the rest forever. #murica
Debtor's prison if the GOP has their way.
Isn't this how Death Stranding started?
actually a bunch of movies and shows, cylon(reimanged) had these things called a farm where they hook up women to a machine to make to constantly try to give birth to hybrid cylon/humans(they are more or less dead without the machine sustaining them, i forgot there was a movie that was keeping woman alive, but braindead and pregnant in a Facility.
Can't we just make her the new health minister instead?
They might've actually surpassed the other Georgia in shittiness.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Georgia_(country)
Other Georgia has abortion rights so less shitty
Georgia the country isn't so bad. And I'll ask you to mind your Ps and Qs.
Don't mind the downvotes, you're streets ahead.
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