Adriana Smith died 3 months ago and her body is being used as an incubator for a foetus that was just 9 weeks along when she passed. Her family have to watch her lie there with her body slowly deteriorating for months while the medical debt piles up. - ThreadSky

handkerchief874.bsky.social • 15 hours ago

Adriana Smith died 3 months ago and her body is being used as an incubator for a foetus that was just 9 weeks along when she passed. Her family have to watch her lie there with her body slowly deteriorating for months while the medical debt piles up.

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fluffy-snake.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It's just absolute confirmation that this society views women as nothing more than baby factories. Just fucking horrific

harendt.bsky.social•13 hours ago

We must stop the horror.
We cannot continue to live in a country like this.

pollycurley.bsky.social•11 hours ago

[Sarcasm/] But overturning Roe was sooo worthwhile. [\Sarcasm]

@aoc.bsky.social @katmabu.bsky.social

ofhuman.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Besides the obvious horror and injustice of this, I cannot even imagine what the lifelong impact of gestating inside a dead body would be.

flootzavut.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Even assuming the baby reaches the point where it can survive outside that body. & can you imagine that child finding out the state forced its mother to be an incubator? & possibly bankrupted the family in the process...

shinyfailure.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I see this and think, “well this is definitely what God had in mind”

buckeye8.bsky.social•14 hours ago

WTAF is happening in our country?! This is horrible no matter how you look at it

owlofthenorth.bsky.social•7 hours ago

On top of the horror of watching their loved one be kept from eternal rest, the family has to pay the bill?!

tokay13.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The people that are forcing this woman's body and family through this are monsters. I don't understand how any medical professional can stand to do this. I would quit my job. Seriously.

chromesthesia.bsky.social•14 hours ago

There's too much evil. Can we have less of this please?

michaeljameshawk.bsky.social•14 hours ago

sheermean.bsky.social•14 hours ago

This happened at least once before, pre-Dobbs, in Texas. There will of course be more cases, each as devastating as the last.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/us/pregnant-and-forced-to-stay-on-life-support.html

jamiemclochlin.bsky.social•10 hours ago

This is evil. I can't think of any other word for it.

notnacre.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Send the bill directly to Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

mosey239.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Family values and Right-to-Life, thanks to the GOP.

foxygekkerson.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Every single Georgia state legislator that remotely supported this deserves the death penalty.

fireantprincess.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I saw that today and it’s like, too on the nose “yes women are incubators to us”

handkerchief874.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I can’t stop thinking about the shit that happens to your body in that state. I know people who’ve been in long-term comas sometimes end up with amputations where their extremities just rotted away. What kind of body horror is her family seeing her go through, knowing she’s already gone?

fireantprincess.bsky.social•14 hours ago

let’s be real, the fetus making it 8 months in that body is extremely unlikely too

fireantprincess.bsky.social•14 hours ago

it’s just all around fucked up

flootzavut.bsky.social•1 hour ago

This was my first thought. They're violating her body & torturing her family & all almost certainly for nothing. Horrifying.

handkerchief874.bsky.social•14 hours ago

They’ve already determined that it has fluid on the brain. If it does survive I can’t imagine the psychological toll this will take on the kid.

fireantprincess.bsky.social•14 hours ago

also, just like, in retrospect.
imagine being told “you grew up in your dead mother for months”

handkerchief874.bsky.social•14 hours ago

And being raised by family members who are traumatised from the whole process… oof

nhinca.bsky.social•14 hours ago

what in the actual fuck is wrong with this country?

mutazmatar77.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I just posted about my family, please don't ignore me, quote and follow me. Please quote my pinned tweet? 🙏💔

415goldblooded.bsky.social•11 hours ago

“Christians” for Trump approve!!
🗣️🗣️🗣️
Don’t they?
💀🙄

Absolutely disgraceful!!
🤬🤬

lisa70.bsky.social•10 hours ago

The state should have to pay those bills.

christinesepsis.bsky.social•14 hours ago

If the state is forcing this, then the state should pay the bill! It’s called profiteering off a deceased person. And if her family had requested this care,insurance probably would’ve turned it down.

klearnote.com•14 hours ago

Nothing says she had to pay the hospital bills. If it wasn’t her choice, then the bills go into the trash can. The hospital can eat those costs themselves.

christinesepsis.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Agreed 100%

christinesepsis.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Her mother was interviewed yesterday and the hospital is sending the family the bill.

klearnote.com•14 hours ago

Of course. And straight into the trash it goes. The hospital can try to collect, but they’ll eventually have to write it off.

shiftercat.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Wouldn't she have to take them to court? I don't see how she could afford that, especially if they decided to use the common corporate tactic of endless appeals.

rachelr.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Which is awful but odd. She was an unmarried 30 year old woman. Why would the bills go to anyone but her/her eventual estate?

klearnote.com•13 hours ago

One would think. There may be extenuating circumstances involved. If the mother is now her daughter’s estate executor, then she is responsible for those bills as executor.

Also, why wouldn’t the father be partly responsible?

rachelr.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Now the father of the baby will probably be responsible for the baby’s health care once they are born but until then, everything that is happening should be considered her medical care just like it would if her health crisis hadn’t happened.

rachelr.bsky.social•9 hours ago

It would come out of her estate if there is any. It does not come from the extended family’s personal money or the executor’s personal money. Hospital bills normally get paid after most other debt too.

christinesepsis.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Because she’s dead… and her mother took custody of the other child. There’s been no discussion about an estate, but this care has been forced on the surviving family and the bill should be paid by the state.

rachelr.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The custody of her children doesn’t have anything to do with her medical bills. Any medical costs would come out of her estate if there is any, and in many states other bills come first. Her family might be having costs due to the issues but costs related to her care wouldn’t be billed to them.

juanfoxx.bsky.social•11 hours ago

They absolutely would! The hospital would have disconnected her no matter how hard her family wanted her to stay

handkerchief874.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Btw, this exact scenario was a plot point in the Handmaid’s Tale TV series in 2019. The woman involved was Black then too. I can’t help but draw a connection with Haitian zombie myths, the horror that even in death one’s body may not be free from enslavement.

punchupnotdown.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I, uh... I never made that connection of zombie = enslavement in death before 😬 That casts a whole new light on some things I've read. 39 years old and still learning, every day.

taliabhatt.itch.io•15 hours ago

Comparisons to the "Handmaid's Tale" have gone from a pithy invocation of "feminist cringe" to matter-of-fact so quickly.

rozyoung.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Wtaf

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