From J. Marion Sims, a doctor who, until a few years ago had a statue in Central Park, and who performed Mengele like experiments on enslaved women, to now.
Black women as lab rats. 1/
https://19thnews.org/2025/05/adriana-smith-georgia-pregnant-woman-life-support-advocates/
Black women as lab rats. 1/
https://19thnews.org/2025/05/adriana-smith-georgia-pregnant-woman-life-support-advocates/
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"Instead, anti-abortion politicians like Donald Trump and Governor Brian Kemp are forcing people through unimaginable pain,”
Imposing the power of the STATE, a thing they pretend to rail against except when it can be used in their favor. Hypocrisy, always.
How it started:
She was 9 weeks pregnant.
Now:
"Smith is now 21 weeks pregnant. Newkirk said the hospital staff told her they plan to keep her daughter breathing until she is at least 32 weeks pregnant."
Because it's THEIR decision.
“But what makes it even more unconscionable is that her family has been denied the space and dignity to grieve,”
Oh, and, the fetus has fluid on the brain:
“She’s pregnant with my grandson. But he may be blind, may not be able to walk, may not survive once he’s born,” she said.
Oh, and if you don't know who J.Marion Sims was
https://www.history.com/articles/the-father-of-modern-gynecology-performed-shocking-experiments-on-slaves
And you're right. Her family should have been able to decide, and the pregnancy should have been irrelevant.