A The black pregnant woman who was announced the brain again in February It is still on the artificial respiratorDue to the Georgia Law, which prohibits abortion after six weeks. If this seems to be things of speculative imagination, it is because there is literally a maid story episode On this. Although the TV program based on Margaret Atwood in 1985 may have obtained many things correctly about the spirit of tyranny and patriarchal society violently, living in this reality is worse.
Anyone who thinks this is about the life of Adrian Smith’s child deceiving himself. This is the country, and test the borders to know what extent can they take their efforts to obtain full genital control over American women, and to measure the extent of the American public’s willingness to tolerance.
that it Unclear Whether Smith’s child will survive, and according to the family, the Emori University Hospital keeps her to support life because the hospital is afraid of violating the Georgia Law. Meanwhile, legislators in the state and the opponents of abortion prepared their hands and did not want to associate with the optics of this tragic chaos. In a press release in mid -May, the Office of the Prosecutor in Georgia Explained The state’s anti -abortion law does not require Smith to survive.
“There is nothing in the law of life that requires medical professionals to keep a woman to support life after the death of the brain,” says the statement. “Removing life’s support is not a job” with the aim of ending pregnancy. “
So who is responsible for this? Do we believe in that? Georgia Legislators are unable to stop the wrongful, clear reading of this hospital for the rules of the state? Even if this is the case, the damage caused by the Crusades against abortion of conservatives and the legislative campaign that followed this has already been done. Hospitals like Emory do not have any incentive to weigh the moral effects of their actions because they have a spirit of law to consider, regardless of how legislators try to play semantic tricks to overcome their guilt.
When it comes to public opinion, Some have argued In favor of this nightmare based on the fact that Smith has died in the brain, so keeping it alive not “hurt” in reality. What next? Women are impregnated in comedy because … why not? Weak women make lobes and use as a lot? Should the state be able to impair every woman who is able to carry a child? Where do you stop?
Meanwhile, all conservative situations on the sanctity of human life are easily dismantled when you think about the fact that the prohibition of miscarriage effectively issues the death penalty for anyone pregnant in danger. What about the issues that Smith transferred to the hospital to start? Her family says she went to see doctors in about eight weeks of pregnancy with severe headache, and received medications on the same day. The next day, she woke up to the air, and returned to the hospital where doctors discovered blood clots in her brain. Smith announced the brain shortly after.
Black women probably For death during childbirth, she is likely to have complications related to pregnancy and regularly see her problems that are rejected and reduced when seeking help. Was Smith’s life not of value when it was here? Why does the body of a dead woman receive more care than she did when she was alive?
Stories like Smith are also a dark reminder of the desperate borders of society to reduce women to their reproductive capabilities. One of the dramatic laws that compels a woman to endure a life -threatening pregnancy, to the Renaissance of the wife and wife, it is clear that a woman’s ability or willingness to carry children is the rod of political and moral lightning in our time, and the “life” of the fetus has become an appropriate tool for use in efforts to control the bodies of women.
But black women have always known this. Smith’s story deeply for the demographic that has not seen the worst of childbearing in the American medical system, but also has a history of using test dolls for women’s experiments.
“We had no choice or opinion on it,” Smith’s mother, April Newker, He said. “We want the child. This is part of my daughter. But the decision should have been left for us – not the state.”
We must go without saying that the person’s agency must be respected, whether conscious or not, but we are used to seeing the bodies of women as a means of a political or economic end that no longer ideas like this are completely unreasonable.
