[...] the baby, a male, has an unknown amount of fluid on the brain.
"She's pregnant with my grandson," Newkirk said. "But he may be blind, may not be able to walk, may not survive once he's born."
"This decision should've been left to us. Now we're left wondering what kind of life he'll have—and we're going to be the ones raising him."
The state of Georgia is forcing a dead women's family to pay to keep her on life support, in order to deliver a fetus with hydrocephalus, a high chance of severe birth defects, and a low chance of survival. Nobody benefits.
Nukes are too good for a society that can produce this kind of outcome.
If that ever happened to me, I would hope a loved one would sneak into my hospital room with no witnesses and pull the plug for me.
But I'm guessing they already have armed security on standby and if someone was caught they'd be charged with two murders.
Oh, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension, cool
A Bluesky comment that said the family is being forced to pay the hospital bills too.
I would sledgehammer everyone who was responsible for killing my wife, but maybe I'm just built different.
what the actual fuck
Man made horrors within my comprehension.
real axolotl tank hours...
jesus christ
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