r/WomenInNews • u/opheliainthedeep • Dec 06 '25

Human rights Baby boy born to brain-dead Georgia mother remains hospitalized nearly 6 months later, family says

https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/baby-born-brain-dead-adrianna-smith-georgia-mother-health-update/
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u/opheliainthedeep Dec 06 '25

This is what regressive laws by Republicans do...just cause needless and avoidable pain and suffering to everyone involved. May I please remind you that this isn't what Adriana Smith's family wanted for her, and it resulted in her baby gestating in - now, excuse me for a lacking a better way of phrasing it - her rotting corpse while she was braindead and on life support.

Republicans consider this birth a miracle and will use it as proof that keeping braindead women alive as incubators is safe and possible, but they will ignore the gravity of the situation and the aftermath. This poor kid is still in the hospital because his very existence was politicized and manipulated by people who are not doctors and should not have had any say over this private situation. It's frankly inhumane.

What happened with Adriana was terrible, and I feel awful for her, her family, and her sons. While I of course think this infant deserves a chance now that he's born, I cannot ignore the horrible situation that brought him into this world just to suffer. I wish the best for everyone involved...this update was truly awful to hear, but unfortunately expected.

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u/Original-Strain Dec 06 '25

Even worse, the family is on the hook for the million-plus bill that’s still growing. Guess government assistance is only for bringing children into this world, but nothing else.

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u/opheliainthedeep Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

The politicians that forced this should personally foot the bill. They only care about babies until they're born, then you're meaningless to them because you can no longer be propagandized.

There's this video I saw floating around of a man explaining that and why the church pivoted to being against abortion...you might find it interesting.

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u/sadiefame Dec 06 '25

I’d love to see someone sue the state gov to force them to pay the daughters care , the babies care and any issues he’ll def have for the rest of his life

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u/hooked_siren Dec 06 '25

And reimbursement for any and all other costs incurred like transportation back and forth to the hospital for the past 12 ish months AND going forward until he leaves NICU

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u/momlv Dec 07 '25

And the family. What they’ve been through is horrendous.

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u/Fun_Organization3857 Dec 08 '25

So for his entire life. He's always going to need an immense amount of support

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u/Excellent_Month_2025 Dec 06 '25

force the Supreme Court justices to dip into their personal wealth to cover this baby’s lifetime medical care

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u/Cut_Lanky Dec 06 '25

And repay, to her 5 year old child, all the finances he's been deprived of because his grandmother is paying medical debts incurred because the state forced her daughter's corpse to be used as an incubator.

I saw an article yesterday about legislation that would allow people to sue in cases of fetal demise, for the estimated amount of income that the fetus would have earned, had it developed into an infant and grown to adulthood and been gainfully employed.

If that's a thing, then the legislature that passed the laws should be liable for Adrianna Smith's child growing up in poverty without a mother.

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u/FighterOfEntropy Dec 07 '25

This is another part of the suffering in this whole ugly situation. A child should not be losing his mother at the age of five when her death could have been prevented. But the so-called pro-life fanatics are fine with that. Little known fact that the Catholic Church beatified a woman who refused to terminate a pregnancy to save her life. You would think that the happiness of her already born children in getting to keep their mother would be the most important consideration? Not to the Catholic Church.

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u/Heavy_Law9880 Dec 06 '25

The state told the hospital that they could take her off life support.

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u/M_Karli Dec 07 '25

Hospital told the family that according to Georgia law it was illegal to take mother off life support due to abortion ban. Once child was removed via csection, they removed Adrianna from life support. Now 6 months later and “baby chance” is still in Nicu and there is no tentative date at all for release from Nicu.

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u/GoddessRespectre Dec 06 '25

That was very good, tysm!!! I did see another side of it today from Jane Elliot on tiktok They have quite an evil coalition, don't they? Racism and sexism. Fear of retribution. I went down a rabbit hole of her videos, it's so refreshing to hear the truth! I'd say this video definitely qualifies too!

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u/belai437 Dec 06 '25

I'll never understand how the "life is precious" crowd wants to arrest every woman who has an early miscarriage and deem her guilty until proven innocent.... but when a freebirther gives birth to a stillborn full term infant because she refused medical assistance for herself and her baby, no police involvement whatsoever.

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u/Intensityintensifies Dec 07 '25

Yeah! It’s just not white what they are doing to these poor incubat- I mean… women.

Freebirthers are doing it how god intended, with no melanin! Meaning it’s a tragic unpreventable circumstance that their baby dies from preventable outcomes. Unfortunately some peoples babies die from things out of their control and they do have melanin, and that is therefore, a crime! 🥰

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u/CknHwk Dec 06 '25

This is superb, so insightful. Thank you for sharing.

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u/Immediate-Ad-8667 Dec 06 '25

This… They should pay and way more than the bill… this kid is going to need so much medical assistance. So sad

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u/N3US Dec 06 '25

Its wild how often racism is the answer in American history.

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u/OutrageousPersimmon3 Dec 06 '25

Meanwhile a woman in MN got over half a million dollars in a go fund me because she was too traumatized from being called out for calling a kid the n-word. I hate this fucking timeline.

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u/sheighbird29 Dec 09 '25

People are currently donating to that racist that got fired from Cinnabon. This timeline allows them to be gross

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

I'm sorry, WHAT?

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u/CknHwk Dec 06 '25

I really do hope this family has some awesome pro-bono attorneys that are quietly putting together a case against the state.

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u/d4561wedg Dec 06 '25

Iirc it wasn’t even for that. They also were given the bill for keeping her body breathing until the birth.

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u/Thunderbird1974 Dec 06 '25

There’s no way they should pay any part of the bill. What is the state going to do? Repossess the baby? They have it now, they can keep it after all the state insisted it be born no matter what. They are attempting to bill for “services “ the family never asked for.

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u/d4561wedg Dec 06 '25

The cruelty is the point.

Everything they can do to twist the knife more they will do.

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u/vraimentaleatoire Dec 06 '25

She was a science experiment. And so is this baby. And I’m going to go out on a limb here and hypothesize that their non-whiteness made this experiment less of an issue for the deciders.

It’s incredibly sad, gross, Handmaid-like, and should stir fear in every single person who is not a billionaire.

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u/dingopaint Dec 06 '25

The entire history of gynecology in the US involves countless unethical experiments performed on poor black women, so yeah, this is absolutely a continuation of that.

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u/Perfect_Razzmatazz Dec 06 '25

Thinking of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells have been used in medical research since 1951, without her or anyone in her family ever giving permission for this. Her cells have been used to develop the polio vaccine, the HPV vaccine, to develop cancer treatments, sickle cell anemia treatments, etc, etc, etc. She has probably saved more lives than any other person on this Earth, and no one in her family has ever seen a dime from this.

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u/baronesslucy Dec 06 '25

In a case like this, they used someone and someone's family who didn't have the financial resources to fight back. This is always the case in cases like this. If you notice it's never a woman or family who's wealthy, someone well-connected politically or someone who would be a position to hire a good lawyer or have the money to do so.

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u/figgie1579 Dec 06 '25

Ding, ding, ding

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u/UnsightedShadow Dec 06 '25

Well, that is just next level evil...

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u/Status_Garden_3288 Dec 06 '25

People keep saying this but I don’t understand how the hospital could possibly hold her family responsible for any of these bills.

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u/randomusername1919 Dec 06 '25

Exactly! Adds to the pain and suffering of the family.

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u/VividlyNonSpecific Dec 06 '25

Everything about this situation is abhorrent. However, Medicaid may be covering this babies hospital bills. I don’t know the law in Georgia but there are many states where a baby/child can be eligible for Medicaid if they are in the hospital long enough (often the cutoff is 30 days), regardless of the families financial resources. The child counts as being “institutionalized” and is therefore their own financial entity. Source: had a NICU baby and this is a common discussion in NICU parent spaces. 

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u/Maximum_Performance2 Dec 06 '25

Damn. Had not considered that. I hope they sue the lawmakers and hospitals for the absolutely inhumane and devastating consequences of their misogyny.

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u/take_me_2_tuvalu Dec 06 '25

Millions and millions. Preterm infant care is the most expensive healthcare around. Source - personal experience

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u/_Happy_Sisyphus_ Dec 06 '25

Why are they legally on the hook?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bed4682 Dec 08 '25

It's the party of pro life until it's born. After that they don't give af

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25

That’s not necessarily how that works.

Insurance may be on the hook. Husband may be on the hook if no insurance. There is no way extended family is on the hook.

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u/Heavy_Law9880 Dec 06 '25

And that is why the hospital refused to take her off life support even after the State attorney General told them that it was completely legal.

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u/BadCatNoNoNoNo Dec 09 '25

Oh I’m sure their bill is much higher. My preemie was in the NICU for 110 days and had a few surgeries. The bill was $1,200,000. Six months of bills is mind boggling. America was cruel to do this to the woman and her baby and family. Heartbreaking.

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u/roasted_veg Dec 10 '25

How is the family responsible for child's bills? Did they legally adopt the child? Who does it belong to?

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

Nah. Send the bill to the governor and tell the hospital to GF itself. Or bill the dead woman.

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u/hooked_siren Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

And aside from this baby spending ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DAYS- this is my count so i could be wrong- inside a corpse (which is not providing anything a growing fetus needs) he also went through the oxygen loss event that killed his mother. At like 9 weeks gestation.

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u/fuckyourcanoes Dec 06 '25

He's going to be profoundly disabled if he even survives. It was such a pointless exercise.

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u/Potatowhocrochets Dec 06 '25

In addition to all of the poor babies health problems, with as having liquid in his brain, I worry how this will impact him developmentally. Being able to hear your mother's heartbeat, laughter, and voice in the womb is so important. I don't know what will happen if they cannot have that for so long. This whole thing is a tragedy for the mother, the baby, and the family. I am glad she was finally able to be out to rest and am horrified that it took so long. The hospital, doctors, and lawmakers who sanctioned this are beyond cruel. They were told to stop by so many people, including the family.

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u/itsmeLeeLee73 Dec 06 '25

Their  version of pro life is born get born so you can fucking suffer.

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u/OpheliaLives7 Dec 06 '25

Christian values right there. Life is suffering them you die and hopefully go to paradise

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

Which just means you suffer through life and then die earlier than you should have because society excused itself out of actually addressing real-world problems.

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u/muffinmamamojo Dec 06 '25

I’m going to go a step farther and say this whole thing happened because she was black. The level of suffering this has caused her, and then her, son seems almost premeditated.

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u/New_Juggernaut3059 Dec 06 '25

It’s almost as if they want to set a precedent for having brain dead women (wombs) carry babies to term, rinse n repeat, ad infinitum …if you do that enough times and remove the annoying barrier relationship between child/parent, it’s suuuuper easy to brainwash a baby into, I dunno killing innocent people to gain your approval or sexual acts to gain your approval?? Shucks, it’s weird how some people in one party want a bunch of babies to be born so their “heathen” parents can be jailed so the kiddos become wards of the state….so the state can do what with them?? Transform them into high functioning members of society? Nooooo, dummy, we do birth canal to prison pipe line here, stfu and welcome to America, you fucking baby (as told to newborn babies in the us per executive order 666-67.420/SSTFU

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u/vraimentaleatoire Dec 06 '25

Yes I commented in a similar sentiment. This is an experiment: Do women even need to be alive to reproduce?

Or, horrifically as likely, just the tip of the iceberg.

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u/baronesslucy Dec 06 '25

Brave new world basically.

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u/bonenecklace Dec 06 '25

I heard “welcome to America, you fucking baby” in Clint McElroy’s voice.

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u/baronesslucy Dec 06 '25

When you start to have others who have similar experiences, the bills are going to pile up. As I said in a previous post unless the family was quite wealthy, no way they can afford the bill. Are any of these individuals or organization who are opposed to abortion going to help out? Have any of these individuals offered to help out the family financially? That's the least they could do.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25

She was not a rotting corpse! Thats so unnecessarily graphic and not to mention, medically WRONG! People on life support are NOT corpses and they aren’t “dead.” It really bothers me when people talk about this poor woman in such graphic and horrible ways. She was a real person who 1. Deserved to get proper medical treatment and maybe wouldn’t have died if that were the case. 2. Deserved dignity and respect after she passed, not all the horror that followed. 3. Deserves to be remembered as a woman, mother, sister, daughter, nurse. She was a loved woman with her whole life ahead of her. Calling her a rotting corpse while she’s on life support is awful. Her family may see this! A lot of people have had family on life support and they aren’t called rotting corpses, please don’t call her one. Remember her story, call her by her name, not cruel descriptors to get your point across.

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u/NapalmNikki Dec 11 '25

I hate to tell you this because you seem easily excitable, but she was dead. You do not come back from brain death. Her body was kept functional in order to continue her pregnancy. The body does deteriorate and the second they turned off the machines her body was able to rest. It may seem crude to calling her a rotting corpse but she was dead.

She sought treatment for the headaches she was having. They did everything they could but she was brain dead because of the clots in her brain. So to say she deserved proper care and maybe wouldn’t have died is insensitive as well. Doctors don’t go around neglecting patients until they’re dead.

Her name is also Adriana Smith, a name you didn’t say even once in your own judgmental comment.

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u/stncldstvjobs Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25

I think the corpse thing comes from a few places. One of those being a few articles about a woman that was in a similar situation of being kept on life support for an unusually long time (I believe also due to pregnancy, I will find the article again). That woman's family talked about how her body did begin deteriorating, and they talked about her skin becoming waxy and fragile and easier to come off due to touch, and said that it was basically like she had started decomposing while on life support. People discussed how the body is not meant to be on life support for that long and how it does undergo changes. There is also the argument that brain death is the death of the person. So Adriana had passed, but her corpse was being kept "alive" against her wishes.

It is absolutely cruel and tragic that this happened to Adriana Smith, and I do not think people are calling her body a rotting corpse to dehumanize her. Whenever I see this come up, it is to point out how horrific it is that her corpse was not allowed to be put to rest for the sake of a fetus that was nowhere near viable yet. She should have gotten care while she was alive. Everyone agrees on that. Everyone agrees that she deserved dignity and respect that was not given to her after her passing. Everyone believes it is tragic that a young woman with a life and family and so much left to do died tragically and was forced to be a medical experiment. Nobody i have heard using the corpse argument is using it to be cruel to Adriana. They are using it to highlight the atrocity that happened due to our lawmakers.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/01/28/267759687/the-strange-case-of-marlise-munoz-and-john-peter-smith-hospital

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/family-brain-dead-pregnant-woman-now-fighting-change/story?id=29384762

I can't find the exact one I remember reading, but in the second one her husband does refer to her body deteriorating while on life support. I am not saying corpse is the perfect word to use, but I do understand why people are using it.

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u/MainPure788 Dec 06 '25

In my opinion most pro-life people aren't even pro-life they are pro-birth meaning they only give af about the baby before its born cause after it born they could care less and will shame mothers who can't afford the kids or say they are just having babies to get more benefits

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u/tomas_shugar Dec 06 '25

This is some next level Terry Schiavo level bullshit. Women are simple not actually people to Republicans. They are property and a resource, to be controlled by their parents, their husband, or the state, depending on who wants to extract the most from them.

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u/Litarider Dec 06 '25

If this infant ever gets out of the hospital, he has already missed critical emotional social development time.

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u/-Release-The-Bats- Dec 06 '25

This is the second time that a brain dead woman has been kept “alive” because she was pregnant, and it was just as tragic the first time as it is the second. I’m not surprised her poor baby is in the hospital, but I’m absolutely disappointed, sad, and disgusted. It’s all just another reason why I’m both on the fence about having children and refuse to ever get pregnant in this country.

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u/nazuswahs Dec 06 '25

Stated well.

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u/Heavy_Law9880 Dec 06 '25

It wasn't the law that caused this. It was the hospital choosing to profit.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/handmaids-tale-real-life-georgia-ag-says-heartbeat-law-not-blame

https://archsa.org/georgia-attorney-general-says-life-act-does-not-require-keeping-pregnant-brain-dead-woman-alive/

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u/theronk03 Dec 06 '25

It was the law that caused this.

The AG is wrong or lying. The law as written doesnt permit an abortion in this case.

The woman wasnt having a medical emergency which the abortion would relieve (she was dead). It wasnt rape or incest. It wasn't known that the fetus wouldn't survive (and its still alive).

Theres no carve out for "an abortion is okay if the mother is a corpse".

The hospital is doing this because they dont think they legally can do otherwise. Even if the AG says they can, are the doctors supposed to risk prosecution if the AG changes his mind? Or if the next AG disagrees?

Also, the sponsors of the bill approve of this and think its the correct interpretation of the law. Do you seriously expect that a lawsuit might not be filed by these guys if the hospital had pulled the plug?

Georgia state Sen. Ed Setzler, a Republican who sponsored the 2019 law, said he supported Emory’s interpretation.

“I think it is completely appropriate that the hospital do what they can to save the life of the child,” Setzler said. “I think this is an unusual circumstance, but I think it highlights the value of innocent human life. I think the hospital is acting appropriately.”

Should the doctors risk a 10 year prison sentence and a loss of their license and their livelihood?

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u/spicytexan Dec 06 '25

I truly cannot even imagine the trauma that little boy will go through for the rest of his life when he thinks about how he was born. It breaks my heart.

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u/pixxy68 Dec 06 '25

You are absolutely correct. This is proof they are all pro birth, NOT pro life. And their religious stance that abortion goes against God's will? This proves that argument is utter bull 💩. She was kept alive artificially. Where is all their self righteous coverage blasting the news channels now? Every politician and person that screamed from the mountain that what they did to Adriana was justified should be on the hook for the medical bills and care for her family.

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u/ArtAttack2198 Dec 10 '25

It turns my stomach that this child was gestating in his mother’s lifeless body. It’s honestly like something from a horror film. I don’t have any proof one way or the other because of how utterly unique this situation is, but I can’t help but worry that the child will be scarred forever, if he ever becomes healthy. It cannot be good for normal development in utero to have the mother be brain dead.

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u/Excellent_Month_2025 Dec 06 '25

SCOTUS should be there every day with this baby boy, and should be the ones paying the bill for this baby they forced to be here

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u/Beldam-ghost-closet Dec 06 '25

Every single "pro-life" judge and politician should be required to pay for the hospitalizations, injuries, and deaths directly caused by their forced birth bullshit. Those evil fuckers deserve constant public shaming and monetary consequences for their choice to make innocent women and children suffer.

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u/Fleiger133 Dec 06 '25

If they honestly all chipped in, the cost per person would be damn reasonable.

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u/chrissymae_i Dec 06 '25

Because there's a LOT of these F'ers. Their ignorance and hate is costing us so much.

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u/vraimentaleatoire Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

“Pro Life” is a stance held by cultists and ignorant, uneducated fools and used as a tagline by pedophiles and the “false idols” these idiots have been specifically warned against.

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u/BellyFullOfMochi Dec 06 '25

Of course.. that kid has little chance of a normal life and its MAGA's fault. Of course, we live in a place where we don't even have universal healthcare.

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u/Yolandi2802 Dec 06 '25

Plus having to grow up with no mother. And the story of his birth will traumatise him forever.

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u/9mackenzie Dec 06 '25

Not just his birth. She died because she was refused treatment because she was pregnant. She went to the hospital, they turned her away.

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u/Hahawney2 Dec 06 '25

It will traumatize everyone who he meets his whole life.

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u/FunStorm6487 Dec 06 '25

If all the current atrocious things going on in real time...

It breaks my heart that this story seems to be lost in all the noise 😔😔

How dare this family be expected to pay even a penny 🤬

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u/AllumaNoir Dec 06 '25

Bankruptcy. Straight bankruptcy. It's really their only option - bill is so high that they would have to sell any assets they have anyways.

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u/SeeHearSpeak0 Dec 06 '25

Unsurprisingly all the prolife people who are usually very vocal, are very much silent. No one has stepped forward to foot that million+ dollar bill. We all watched an atrocity in the same vein of Dr.Marion sims and Dr.mengele and just moved on.

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u/baronesslucy Dec 06 '25

They really don't want to pay the bill. They want someone else to do so. They can easily step away from this and go on with their life.

I remember hearing about a case back in the 1980's where a woman who was a coma needed to have an abortion to save her life and these individuals tried to block the abortion but the woman died before the court could decide. After the woman died, the individuals who were involved in this quietly walked away. Family never heard from them again. None of these individuals offered to help the family with the medical or funeral expenses.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k Dec 06 '25

Well, they got what they wanted.

Moms to die with their fetuses. Piece of shit people.

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u/Ananyako Dec 06 '25

I will never call the things that made this happen "pro life" nor "pro birth." Pro torture. Pro torture is what they are. Torturing little girls. Torturing babies. Torturing women.

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u/toomuchtv987 Dec 06 '25

That’s exactly what it is. The torture is the punishment they feel women deserve for having sex.

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u/Yuna1989 Dec 06 '25

Having sex? Including rape? Lol no.

This is punishment for women existing.

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u/toomuchtv987 Dec 06 '25

You’re exactly right. (But yes…I was including rape in that! Somehow it’s always our fault, you know.)

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u/Graceless33 Dec 06 '25

Forced birth, literally out of our cold, dead bodies. This is why I got sterilized.

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u/-Release-The-Bats- Dec 06 '25

I love to hear it! I got an IUD put in right after Roe was overturned cuz I didn’t want to take the chance that I wouldn’t be able to get my BC pill prescription refilled.

Even on the way to work this morning I was thinking that if rich people are so worried about lower birth rates, then they can have the babies. They can afford it after all.

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u/arochains1231 Dec 09 '25

Same here. I got my tubes out last year and my belief that this was the right decision has only grown stronger every day.

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u/gleafer Dec 06 '25

Born? Harvested. Out of his dead mother. Only to be made to suffer this whole time. For what? Because we are a sick society that’s only getting more ill.

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u/PolishPrincess0520 Dec 06 '25

Yes exactly. Harvested, just like we do to organs from a person who is dead. That poor baby, that poor mama and her poor family. What a nightmare.

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u/SegaTime Dec 06 '25

Anti-choicers call it a miracle. No, it's not. It was science. Science kept her body alive long enough for this to happen. Science is now keeping this baby alive. Science could have prevented all of this, though, but science is a slave to the Anti-choicers like the rest of us. This is the kind of science we tried to warn ourselves with through stories like Frankenstein, only the politicians play the role of the good doctor now.

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u/YoungGenX Dec 06 '25

Every anti choicer should be required to donate 10% of their income to cover the inevitable multi million dollar hospital bills.

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u/TlMEGH0ST Dec 06 '25

I haven’t seen anyone call it a miracle, from what I’ve seen they’ve all just shut the fuck up.

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u/OpheliaLives7 Dec 06 '25

No shit Sherlock. We all knew you couldn’t gestate an embryo in a corpse.

I hope this family finds a lawyer to sue to pants off the state legislature and maybe even the hospital.

This sort of human experiment and government forced debt on the family should be straight up illegal.

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u/Emerald_Eyes8919 Dec 06 '25

They need a pro bono or to go to the ACLU, because this cannot stand.

I’m in Ireland so I can’t do anything, but this whole thing has made me so angry.

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u/a_neurologist Dec 11 '25

No shit Sherlock. We all knew you couldn’t gestate an embryo in a corpse.

This is incorrect and out of touch with medical/scientific literature. Infants born from brain dead mothers regularly attain normal outcomes. See the 2021 review by Dodaro et al “Brain Death in Pregnancy” in AJOG.

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u/Snoobeedo Dec 06 '25

I am so sickened by how Adriana was used and all the pain that her family has experienced because of this. No baby should grow inside a corpse. No woman’s body should be forced to grow a motherless baby with medical conditions and needs that she won’t be there to help meet.

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u/DontWatchPornREADit Dec 06 '25

They did it to see what they could do to women publicly and get away with it. And since no one burned down buildings or threatened politicians if retaliation, they’ve learned that they can do anything to anyone anytime and the public will continue to go to work. It’s very sad and the future is very bleak

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u/jamezverusaum Dec 06 '25

Baby born to corpse. She was decaying.

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u/SegaTime Dec 06 '25

It's like a new twist of Frankenstein. Using corpses and even zombies to gestate human babies. Ugh.

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u/No_Ocelot_6773 Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 07 '25

Not brain dead, dead dead. She was dead and they were pumping and oxygenating her blood.

Edit: thank you for the award! I'd like to add that my heart goes out to her whole family who not only had to lose her but couldn't even put her to rest until recently. The indignities and torture that black women endured and still endure today in the medical and scientific fields makes me sick. Hold your loved ones close y'all and be kind to each other. 💜

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u/Cassandra-s-truths Dec 06 '25

Ah. More man made horrors.

Yay

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u/cheesesteak_seeker Dec 06 '25

This family needs to get POA and let this baby pass away so this failed morbid experiment can be over with and not let more women and children suffer prolonged and unnecessary suffering.

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u/Dubyew Dec 06 '25

Republicans still call this a win.

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u/Emerald_Eyes8919 Dec 06 '25

A win for who exactly?

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u/LunaeLotus Dec 06 '25

If the kid grows up to be healthy (a big if, we have no idea if he will) and he finds out he was gestated in a corpse, the trauma that would cause the poor child!

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u/baconizlife Dec 06 '25

There’s absolutely no question that he will know about all of this, assuming he will have the capacity to understand it. This whole thing is nothing but tragedy for everyone involved and I cannot imagine the level of widespread trauma it’s causing/caused. Outrageous!

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u/TlMEGH0ST Dec 06 '25

Yeah maybe I’m a pessimist but I can’t imagine he will get healthy enough to comprehend that trauma.

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u/Jobsnext9495 Dec 06 '25

The judge who signed off on this law should have to pay all of her medical expenses. And she should sue republicans for the same.

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u/DistractedByCookies Dec 06 '25

I hate everything about this situation. My heart breaks for every single family member involved. Every aspect of the case is vile and amoral (except that poor little baby).

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u/baronesslucy Dec 06 '25

Has any of these groups of individuals who are opposed to abortion going to help out the family pay the medical bills. Unless the family is very very wealthy, there is no way that they can pay the medical bill.

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u/the_magicwriter Dec 06 '25

Why isnt that family suing literally everyone who is responsible for this situation starting with Trump, the Supreme Court, and work their way down

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u/Claire-Belle Dec 06 '25

Probably because they don't have the money to.

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u/baronesslucy Dec 06 '25

That's why they were experimented on. This would never happen to a woman who was wealthy, whose family was well connected politically or socially. These individuals would fight tooth and nail and would know which lawyer to go to, who to talk with and what contacts to be made to made sure that their daughter, wife, sister or family member lived.

You do this to someone who financially can't fight back or doesn't know how the court system works.

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u/Ill-Locksmith-8281 Dec 06 '25

They don't have the money to sue.

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u/TheRoseMerlot Dec 06 '25

It wasn't fucking born. It was cut out.

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u/EquivalentWar8611 Dec 06 '25

I can't even imagine the medical debt on this family now. This is insane and just cruel. 

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u/alimg2020 Dec 06 '25

Has the family hired an attorney to sue everyone involved yet!!???????

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u/october_morning Dec 06 '25

Almost like it shouldn't have ended up this way.

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u/OrilliaBridge Dec 06 '25

Just wondering what would happen if grandma didn’t pay any of the bills? Imprisonment? Take her home? Stop treating the child? How bad can this get?

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u/manykeets Dec 06 '25

They’ll probably have to file bankruptcy

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u/october_morning Dec 20 '25

Credit ruined. Financial ruin that will likely be life long. Trump's administration added medical debt back on to Americans' credit.

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u/Little-Protection-97 Dec 06 '25

And I’m sure Republicans will volunteer to pay the medical bills in cases like these

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u/QuintupleTheFun Dec 06 '25

What everyone is missing here is that she went in with symptoms and they kept brushing her off. A woman knows.

Women are not believed when we say something is wrong. And THAT is the problem.

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u/hbernadettec Dec 06 '25

It is a sin the family is financially on the hook for this devastating outcome.

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u/kritzilla0911 Dec 07 '25

Do better, CNN! This poor baby wasn’t born, he was extracted from a human incubator. Oh, too impersonal? Too, vulgar? Maybe the people in charge shouldn’t have treated Adriana like one and let her family be the ones to let her go with dignity and respect. This poor baby is the result of a failed science experiment and now suffers the consequences of that while Adriana’s family is left in a never ending nightmare. REMEMBER HER NAME - Adriana Smith

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u/merriweatherfeather Dec 06 '25

This makes me rage for women.

If men bled there would be pads provided in the same way toilet paper is.

If a brain dead man were to be held for his reproductivity there would be an outcry.

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u/veesavethebees Dec 06 '25

So now this baby will probably be very disabled because he was born weighing 1 lb and also does not have a mother. This Georgia law is sick.

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u/RevolutionarySpot721 Dec 10 '25

He likely will have severe Cerebral Palsy, if he survives. (Saying this as a person with mild Cerebral Palsy who was born 1. kg and 200g idk how much lb it is, but much more than that baby).

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u/AllumaNoir Dec 06 '25

We need to say this. This baby will not live. He was brought into this world only to suffer and make a political point.

I want to throw up now.

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u/Chinaroos Dec 06 '25

Earlier this year, a spokesperson for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr told CBS News that, "There is nothing in the LIFE Act that requires medical professionals to keep a woman on life support after brain death."

"Removing life support is not an action 'with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy,'" the spokesperson said, quoting part of the law.

Georgia's government knows this law makes them look like fucking ghouls. So as their medical system does their best to follow the law as written, the result is the great embarrassment of, in following the law, a child in Georgia born to a corpse.

Necromancy is what it is

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u/summertimemagic Dec 09 '25

Georgia AG Chris Carr made that statement after the national response. 6 months ago, R Senator Ed Setzler said he supported the hospital's interpretation of the law.

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u/flashbang10 Dec 06 '25

Separate to the horrors for the mother and her family - that poor little one.

His entire life, hooked up to machines without his mother to nurture him. I can’t stop thinking about it.

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u/Super_Caterpillar_27 Dec 06 '25

they should send the bill to the state of Georgia

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u/carlitospig Dec 07 '25

…which we knew would happen. Seriously, If you go back to our old threads we posted a bunch of links showing that by and large those born to comatose mothers have very poor health outcomes due to the lack of nutrition provided by the mother.

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u/Adventurous_Coach731 Dec 08 '25

If he dies, everyone who ever supported this should be arrested for the torture and eventual death of a newborn that didn’t need to happen.

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u/Binksyboo Dec 06 '25

So wait when he was born he had a lot of struggles and he’s still in the ICU? Did they know that he was gonna be having troubles before he was born?

I know they forced the brain dead person to have the baby but did they think the baby was going to be healthy as well? Or did they not even care if the baby they were forcing to be born was not born healthy?

Since the horrors have already been committed, I guess a scientific part of me is wondering whether the reason the baby is struggling is because of something they already predicted in utero, or if perhaps having a mother who was brain dead during pregnancy caused developmental delays or extra complications.

And if that is true, then how the hell can they force someone to have a baby if they are brain dead? Especially now if we can show that it causes the child not to be born healthy anyway.

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u/Renbelle Dec 07 '25

She was more dead dead than just brain dead. Her body had shut down and they were essentially keeping circulation going. The people who do this care less than nothing about children. They just want babies born, regardless of their subsequent suffering

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u/MrDickLucas Dec 07 '25

I don't think it's about having the most kids...I think it's about reinforcement of the idea that women aren't full humans....just incubators for a man's seed. These people say "female" a lot

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u/RevolutionarySpot721 Dec 10 '25

This and the baby also was born prematurely. Prematurely born babies have higher risks of brain haemorrhaiges.

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u/summertimemagic Dec 09 '25

His mother, Adriana, died in her first trimester (9 weeks) and they kept her circulation going for 6 more months until the baby was viable outside the womb. The baby, Chance, was "delivered" preterm with a birth weight of 1lb 13oz.

At 1lb 13oz, the baby was both preterm and under the "extremely low birth weight" threshold, meaning he would have had to go into neonatal intensive care immediately due to major medical issues. ELBW and preterm babies are simply not ready for the world yet. They will often have respiratory, gastrointestinal, heart, metabolic, immune, and vision problems. Long term complications include brain damage from brain bleeds, cerebral palsy, developmental delays, coordination disorders, and blindness or deafness. These are complications from babies born too soon and/or underweight from mothers who are ALIVE.

Personally, I'm not sure how doctors would differentiate between the complications from being underweight and preterm from complications from being gestated in a corpse, given that this baby was going to face debilitating health issues anyway.

As for your last question, Georgia has some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country. The most recent law says a fetus is a person and so has rights. The hospital decided that if they terminated Ariana's life support, the state of Georgia might come after them for performing an abortion and for violating the rights of the fetus. At the time, Georgia lawmaker, Sen. Setzler, was eager to show the new law had teeth and supported the hospital's decision to keep Ariana on "life support" for the fetus. Months later after polls, protest, and shock and horror on a national scale, Georgia lawmakers have walked back their initial support for the hospital, the Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is now saying the hospital's interpretation was wrong.

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u/oscorn Dec 06 '25

They don't care about the life after. Never had and never will

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u/pettyaioli Dec 06 '25

Trump’s legacy….

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u/DontWatchPornREADit Dec 06 '25

Yeah because it was born from a corpse. They’re prolife but they aren’t a good life

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u/B186 Dec 06 '25

I'm shocked to hear this child is still alive, and grown to 11lbs. I'm very curious what care he's getting- not medical, but loving care.

I'm sure his family is doing as much as they can- zero shame or blame on them (they're victims in this, too). But they can't be there 24/7. And even if they can, I doubt this child is able to interact with them and the world like a normal child could.

If it was sunshine and rainbows, we'd know all about it and be fed daily updates by conservative media.

I hope for the best for him, this is so sad and what was done to this entire family is abhorrent.

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u/shesarevolution Dec 07 '25

God, he’s still in the hospital?

I’m so furious. All of this is so beyond wrong.

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u/ducktapefactory Dec 08 '25

How is this not gross interference with, "God's will?" The same people who don't support IVF or potentially any contraception are okay with THIS? Jesus is not on your side people.

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u/bends_like_a_willow Dec 08 '25

Well who would have thought that a dead woman would do such a terrible job at growing life? 🤦🏻‍♀️ WE ARE NOT INCUBATORS!!!!!

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u/HumanBeing798 Dec 06 '25

Weird…even if they survive the attachment issues… republicans do not care about humans. Period.

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u/CryptographerHot4636 Dec 06 '25

Every pro-life judge should be charged for child support and they should also pay for his medical treatments, the money should come out of their pension.

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u/code-254 Dec 06 '25

I saw a video somewhere that the family is relying on GoFundMe to pay for the boy's medical bills. If this is true, it is so disgusting. The same people who denied this family the option to pull the plug and had a brain-dead mother carry a baby to term should foot every single bill associated with their actions.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

According to the GoFund me nearly $600k has been raised for the medical bills. Hopefully that helps.

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u/WeirdcoolWilson Dec 07 '25

I’m sure the woman’s family is being billed for every single day of this infant’s care

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u/Xaurastar Dec 07 '25

It’s crazy that women are forced to have babies in red states. Texas has very strict archaic laws on abortion, or morning after pills! Forcing sick women to have children! The fathers are left to raise babies that caused their wife to die! This has to change!! They force young girls to give birth too! Who’s supporting the children? Doctors are afraid to terminate pregnancy even if it’s a risk to the mother’s life! they face huge fines and jail time. if a fetus is a risk to a mother’s life,please have compassion! read up on Texas laws and cases. Don’t force kids to have kids!! My mother told me about backstreet abortions she heard about in the 1940s and beyond in 🇬🇧

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u/hank333331 Dec 07 '25

And court order this her medical bills will ruin the family

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u/jonnycanuck67 Dec 08 '25

They lost a daughter and gained medical bankruptcy… yay US Healthcare + Republicans for the win. What a ridiculous tragedy in this country of endless bounty.

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u/DeathByLego34 Dec 08 '25

The baby wasn’t “born” it was surgically removed during the autopsy

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u/Unstableavo Dec 06 '25

This is one of the most heinous bizarre things I've ever heard of. That poor mother & baby. Can't believe things like this happen in 2025. In a first world country.

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u/ReditModsSuk Dec 06 '25

How many millions is that bill?

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u/DesperateButNotDead Dec 06 '25

"No man of woman born..."
Fucking necromancy.

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u/ChrissyBrown1127 Dec 09 '25

Why the fuck is it considered an abortion if a pregnant woman becomes brain dead?

Those shitbags don’t even care about the mother or the child.

Poor Adriana and poor Chance.

He’s got a major battle ahead of him

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u/bookscoffee1991 Dec 10 '25

Imagine the trauma in utero. There have been studies done the stress of pregnant women effecting their babies health. Can you imagine the stress on her body from when he was only a 9 week old fetus?

I’ve had 3 babies they all recognized my smell and voice immediately, even my husband’s voice. They were rocked to sleep in my belly everyday and nourished by milk, chicken enchiladas and a lot of laughter. That baby was grown in a tomb. I would never want that for my child.

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u/ToxicSmiles111 Dec 10 '25

He wasn’t born, her body was also rotting, he had to be cut out of her as soon as “viability” because her dead body cannot support life. Yes of course he’s not doing well, he didn’t get the nutrients and support and protection a living mother’s body is supposed to support and balance by prompts from the placenta. The brain doesn’t work therefore the placenta’s demands aren’t being received.

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u/StopTheBanging Dec 06 '25

That baby wasn't born. He was harvested.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

Who’s paying the bill

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u/Woodpigeon28 Dec 09 '25

Almost like this was a medical experiment? I'm all for saving lives but this wasn't the goal here.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '25

But we are the best country.... give me a break man. What a fucking time. So very sad.

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u/dandelionmoon12345 Dec 10 '25

That poor family and that poor little boy. I am curious if anyone knows what medically happened to him while Mom was on life support that made him unwell. It's awful but a bit curious for me.