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

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Anyone see this story?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/pregnant-georgia-woman-brain-dead-abortion-law

TLTR
US women is being kept alive on life support due to abortion laws. Woman was 9 weeks pregnant when she became brain dead. Family have no say in the matter and do not want this. The foetus if it survives may have life long health conditions and suffer from brain damage. Family are also having to pay for medical fees occurred and also for future birth fees.

I am being unreasonable to say WTF. Where is the outcry about this? This actually happened in an episode of The Handmaid’s tale.

YABU - this is the law, law needs to be upheld even after death
YANBU - WTF. Women are not safe even after death.

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

Ah yes I missed that. I wonder if he’s the father to her other child? Raises all sorts of questions if he was not and to bring up the child separately from her other child.

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 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.

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.

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 didn’t say it could have health issues because of this, as in only having health issues due to the mother being kept alive. We also don’t know the mother’s health history. It says she had blood clots to the brain so lack of oxygen could may well lead to brain and health issue in the foetus. We can only speculate though.

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 ??!

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.

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?

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

They get sued I’m guessing. The US is absolutely barbaric these days. Land of the free my arse.

Yes, it’s the machines that are keeping her alive and are the only reason she is alive right now.

Side note, with you saying you’re 100% anti abortion. What about women who have been brutally raped or gotten pregnant due to incest. What are your thoughts on those women who choose to have abortions?

You’re right. And any political movement which is pro death penalty isn’t acting in good faith. It’s not about the sanctity of life. Hopefully cases like this will lead to more humane laws.

I don’t understand why this would class as an abortion. The poor woman is dead. And as a result the baby will die as well. That’s different from electively choosing an abortion.

As I said, I'm 100% anti-abortion.

I would say they are being deliberately vague on the things you have mentioned. Anyone who was wanting to investigate would have to look at similar cases and compare but then things like new technology could affect results. The whole case is absurd.

And this is a looking glass into our future if we continue to vote for Reform. Anyone who is a woman, or cares about a woman, should wake up and smell the coffee. Nige thinks the sun shines out of Donny T’s arse. The UK would be following suit under a Reform government.

That says it better than I did. And I’m anti abortion. But this is just not acceptable.

Just horrendous. That poor woman, there is no dignity at all for her.

But surely you have reasons behind it, reasons that have informed your decision. I can’t imagine having such a 100% stance on a subject without having a reasoning. I’m not bating you, I’m genuinely interested to know why

Absolutely fucking bonkers. This is the negative part of religion and its influence in society. It’s not on

If the foetus is a life then the family should be able to take out life insurance

What a bloody excellent point @Snorlaxo

Yeah, if it's.

I'd the baby wasn't injured by whatever happened to mum, then providing the hospital manage to lay the woman attacks, in most cases the baby is fine.

They're was a case in the Czech republic of a woman kept alive for about 5m so her baby could survive. Baby was perfectly healthy.

But it's also not easy to keep a woman with no brain activity stable, so not all make it.

I think it's an amazing thing to be able to do where we know mum would have wanted it and the family are in favour. The issues here are that the family are against it, it was very early on in pregnancy, that the baby is so poorly it might not survive or be proudly disabled and that the family will be lumbered with the bill.

So if a 13 year old is raped by her father, she has to have the child, even if it's reported the following day? What makes you think this is the best way to handle the situation?