Gas Snake
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- Oct 21, 2023
In this fucked up society, the family can abandon the baby to the state without a problem. As for the hospital bill? They should fight it legally if it's true that they did not ask for the mother to be kept alive. Given that this case is so unique, new laws may even have to be created over it. In my state, you can't be sued over medical debt but I doubt Georgia is so lucky.I'm partly worried about the situation where a family without the mother has trouble providing for the kid, but mostly due to the fact that I dunno if this is a normal thing that's done. Who is paying the bill for the mother to be kept on life support and then the birth in a situation where the family is against it but state law is forcing the doctors to keep her on life support until the baby is born? Whats the precedent for health insurance covering more procedures after you die, if they even have it?
Do we know if babies can be safely brought to term from essentially dead mothers over the course of multiple months? Can her body really support a baby like this? We know the baby was born essentially fucked after this, but maybe it was just bad luck and other moms in this situation can birth healthy ones? Its questions I have no idea the answers to.
As for the baby's condition, what I want to know is- are we killing retarded children or not? Is everyone valuable or are we doing eugenics? The problem with drawing a line (abortion) is now, the entire argument revolves around where that line ought to be. In the UK, it is now legal to induce an abortion right up to active labor. Day-of. Why stop there? Should I decapitate my 2-yo because he has a speech delay and a pectus excavatum? It is better to be 'dead' than 'essentially fucked'? Can we poll cripples and ask how many are cool with having their skulls pierced with a steel rod?
I don't really want to derail the thread with an abortion argument, but society really needs to decided what life, absent from any other context, is actually worth.