Woman declared legally dead is being kept alive due to state’s abortion laws

The description I saw was the they are using a dead body as an incubator, that is just unspeakable.

Exactly where in "the west" have the "liberal left" held power and enacted all these things you are concerned about over the last 15 years?

I am 100% anti-abortion.

However I cannot see how allowing the woman to die could have been considered an abortion. Are the machines what's keeping her "alive' right now?

I think if everyone involved was in support of this and knew that it's what the woman would have wanted then saving her baby would be miraculous. But that's not the case.

This is what I didn’t understand, is it possible to keep a woman ‘alive’ this long and the foetus can be totally healthy ? Are they saying they baby may have issues because that’s common or is it due to the specifics surrounding the condition that made the mother so unwell. It’s not very clear but maybe it’s designed to be vague ? It seems absurd that the family could be liable for the costs of life support ??!

How on earth would letting this woman pass away with some dignity count as an abortion?
If they switch off her life support, they aren’t actively performing a termination?!! I don’t get even the logic behind this, let alone the complete lack of morals

I mean women, especially from some demographics overwhelmingly did vote for them but I don’t think that was the reason they chose not to codify abortion rights - I think they fear the power of conservative voters especially the Evangelical vote. And they mistakenly felt Roe vs. Wade was here for good.
And women who vote democrat appear to do so for far more reasons than just abortion rights.

I think the conservatives are the most to blame. I do think the left should of codified abortion rights into law. They had the opportunity but preferred to keep the implicit threat dangling to incentivise women to vote for them.

Your reaponses are boring.

Your lack of accountability is boring

Your “Please Your Honour, She made me hit her” is positioning is boring.

Just. Boring.

I don't think many people would agree that this is 'really' an abortion

In my opinion this is more a grotesque science experiment. Turning off life support is a kindness to this woman keeping her going for months doesn't seem right. How will the child feel raised when it learns of its origins

Utterly horrific, and the family are having to pay the bills for this torment as well. I hope someone can raise funds to help them.

I agree that if this happened when live birth was viable you would probably want to try to deliver the baby, but not from 9 weeks. These 'forced birthers' are ghouls.

With absolutely respect (honestly, I’m not being snarky) being ‘anti-abortion’, however ‘weakly’ is too simplistic.

If you mean you are anti the provision of safe and legal abortion procedures the only alternative will be those of the back street variety (for those who can’t afford to travel). God knows how many women in the US have risked this recently. Because abortions ain’t going to stop happening, however illegal they’re made.

I watched her interview on nbc the grandmother reckoned she’d share responsibilities with her daughter’s partner. I’m sure it’s not about money but can you imagine going from a 2 income, one child familyto being a single parent of a 6 yo, a profoundly disabled baby and a financially crippling medical bill. He’s going to need support.

The left has benefitted from decades of women's rights movements. They should have had women's backs and not left them politically homeless and having to choose between their own fairness and dignity on a daily basis versus some other women's right to an abortion.

Those legislators will never support abortion but the left should have anticipated ways for them to gain support and resisted. They didn't.

So yes the left is the most to blame.

I’m done having children, but if someone had raised this as a hypothetical when I was pregnant with either of mine, I would have said, “If the baby’s still alive, don’t you dare take me off life support until after either delivery or a natural miscarriage.” Is there any indication what Adriana herself might have wanted if she’d known she was going to end up in this situation?

I assume the father was the boyfriend - they mention him at the start.

Why can’t the family decide? Will they harvest her organs afterwards as well?

Americans are bloody nuts.

I agree if the family don’t agree then they should not have to pay

I heard your kow-towing and mollycoddling the first time.

Left-wing liberals write bad laws: blame The Left

Right-wing conservatives write bad laws: blame The Left.

You position is clear.

I will only ever hold to account those who are accountable -those who legislate for laws are accountable for their legislation.

I'm just re-watching the fictional series The Handmaid's Tale and this is something that happens in the series.

I agree with JHound, this situation surely doesn't count as an abortion? The woman has died, she hasn't decided to abort her baby! Therefore, she and her baby die together.

Feel so sorry for her and her family.

Can someone medical explain why the baby could have brain/other health issues due to this ? As at 9 weeks a foetus is relatively well protected . Also I’m assuming they can do scans so surely there’s an opportunity soon to ascertain the viability of the foetus ?