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Another important piece of context I haven’t seen enough people mentioning (because news stories are leaving it out): Adriana Smith’s family was forced to pay for this.
Adriana Smith’s family, while dealing with the grief of suddenly losing her and watching her body linger and knowing she would never wake up, watching her body being used as an incubator after being given no choice in the matter (and worth noting for so-called “pro-life” folks, Smith’s mother April Newkirk has said “I’m not saying that we would have chose to terminate her pregnancy. What I’m saying is, we should have had a choice.”), is also BEING BILLED for this indignity, this cruelty, this undoubtedly racially motivated miscarriage of justice.
And much of this at THE HOSPITAL SHE WORKED AT AS A NURSE - her coworkers, by choice or by “just following orders,” were the ones to perpetrate this disgusting removal of personhood and agency — after she went in (to another hospital) complaining of a headache and was dismissed with pain medication, with NO TESTS ORDERED BY HER DOCTOR. She was declared brain dead from blood clots the next day, and that’s also 100% the racism, sexism, and ESPECIALLY misogynoir of the American medical field at work.
This article from Ms. Magazine is very good. Here is Adriana’s family’s GoFundMe if you are able to help. Here’s a 2024 article from Georgetown on medical misogynoir. If anyone has other reading suggestions, please add them.
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