Not Allowed to Die

“A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her family says a hospital told them was required under the state’s strict anti-abortion law. With her due date still more than three months away, it could be one of the longest such pregnancies.” Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus to birth because of abortion ban.

+ “After an unsuccessful surgery, she was declared brain-dead. Those events already constitute almost any definition of tragedy; in addition to the baby she was planning to welcome with her boyfriend, she already had another young son who will now be left without a mother. But what happened next turned the situation from a tragedy into an absolute horror show. Despite the fact that Smith was legally dead, the hospital informed her family that she was not allowed to actually die.” Monica Hesse in WaPo (Gift Article): Is this Gilead? Nope, just Georgia.