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angrychair

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Mon May 19, 2025, 03:05 PM May 19

This is not fiction [View all]

Reminder that right now, in the state of Georgia, we, as a society, that we are holding a dead woman as a prisoner and the government is forcing a hospital to keep a brain dead woman alive against the wishes of her family just because she died while 9 weeks pregnant and the state government will force her to breath and her heart to pump until the completion of the third trimester and they can cut the fetus from this poor family's daughter's corpse.
The kicker is they are also forcing her family to pay all the medical bills to keep her alive for the next 7 months.
All without understanding the actual impact on the fetus by forcing this poor woman to maintain this zombie state for 7 months.

This is a fucking horror show.

Reference: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-woman-brain-dead-woman-must-carry-fetus-to-birth-because-of-abortion-ban/

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This is not fiction [View all] angrychair May 19 OP
It is unusual for them to do this get the red out May 19 #1
If you are dead, they make you stay alive. Irish_Dem May 19 #2
That was not an option soldierant May 19 #37
Where are the attorney's arguing for her 13th Amendment right? CrispyQ May 19 #3
This is not a choice issue. soldierant May 19 #38
Irrelevant lonely bird May 20 #57
Yes. And she DID NOT have a FETUS inside her! raging moderate May 20 #58
Brain dead is usually dead. bucolic_frolic May 19 #4
Does a Viking King count as royalty? Delmette2.0 May 19 #7
Or being an Hunyadi? ChazInAz May 19 #46
Yes, and Charlemagne Equity Fund will have a deluge of applications ./nt bucolic_frolic May 20 #59
LOL. Delmette2.0 May 20 #60
Forcing the family to pay the bill sounds unconstitutional....... Lovie777 May 19 #5
So they should be like tsf and pay nothing. rubbersole May 19 #44
I don't think parents have legal obligations for adult children in most cases. Doesn't make sense. Nt lostnfound May 21 #65
And if the family refuses? DFW May 21 #66
It is a horror movie though KT2000 May 19 #6
Not a horror movie.... usedtobedemgurl May 19 #24
Can you Spell G-I-L-E-A-D ?!!! electric_blue68 May 19 #48
Exactly. usedtobedemgurl May 19 #49
Ikr. Ick and yikes! electric_blue68 May 19 #50
I would expect nothing less... GiqueCee May 19 #8
My babies and I bonded while they were in my womb. pandr32 May 19 #9
i have to wonder if this baby will b ok. mopinko May 19 #12
Probably not. Girard442 May 19 #15
Basically the baby is in a machine womb. pandr32 May 19 #17
Worse. MadLinguist May 20 #61
I had same experience. Dixiegrrrl May 19 #42
There's changes in our brain. pandr32 May 20 #56
Birds Cirsium May 20 #63
Interesting. pandr32 May 20 #64
But... But... But... BurnDoubt May 19 #10
Go OT on them and quote Numbers 11: 5-13, the test for an unfaithful wife. multigraincracker May 19 #32
This is America 2025. spanone May 19 #11
Why they hate the ERA. rickyhall May 19 #13
GOP BRAND Iamscrewed May 19 #14
sorry. the bill goes to the fetus humpers, plus child support. pansypoo53219 May 19 #16
It should. pandr32 May 19 #18
G.O.P. Kristo-sadism BoRaGard May 19 #19
We are living through an Age of Dystopia. SleeplessinSoCal May 19 #20
Has the family requested she be taken off of life support? WarGamer May 19 #21
They wanted her off, justaprogressive May 19 #26
Then the desires of the family need to be respected. WarGamer May 19 #35
Every horror is worst than the last one. Joinfortmill May 19 #22
The horror show is that lawyers are telling doctors how to practice medicine. Mosby May 19 #23
Shes only 9 weeks?!! Kali May 19 #25
I believe she was 9 weeks when she had the incident Crunchy Frog May 20 #51
insanity Kali May 20 #54
More Detail & Parallels justaprogressive May 19 #27
Agreed Evolve Dammit May 19 #28
It is, i think, the height of depravity. NNadir May 19 #29
We are drowning in dystopian plot twists of horror. yellow dahlia May 19 #30
The powers that be have taken away her reproductive rights from the beginning and now her dignity to die peacefully Deuxcents May 19 #31
This is not unusual - 20 years ago this year BumRushDaShow May 19 #33
Yep angrychair May 19 #40
Kick SheltieLover May 19 #34
Christian Taliban. nt. Hotler May 19 #36
The fetus may not survive according to docters. This is so fucking cruel. Autumn May 19 #39
I have zero doubts angrychair May 19 #43
Dear Pope Leo. If you get a minute. BidenRocks May 19 #41
The Catholic Church ruled that terminally ill people could in good conscience refuse "extraordinary measures" Hekate May 20 #55
I predict someone will take the hit Figarosmom May 19 #45
The family shouldn't have to pay one penny of the medical debt; area51 May 19 #47
A living woman has fewer rights than a corpse. Shipwack May 20 #52
Are there prayer groups outside the hospital? Has anyone brought a life-size crucifix on a trailer hitch? Hekate May 20 #53
Conservatives are degenerate ghouls. Shades of Karen Ann Quinlan in the 70s during the Ford administration. Martin68 May 20 #62
Her family can sue the hospital and the people doing this.. Meowmee May 21 #67
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