US EditionDear Black Mommy: Adriana Smith Could’ve Been Us
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Playing God with Black lives: The preventable tragedy of Adriana Smith
Black women in America have had a complicated—and often painful—relationship with childbirth for centuries. During slavery, Black women were forced to perform intensive labor throughout their pregnancies, and their infants were 1.6 times more likely to die during their first year compared to White infants. Many early gynecological advancements like cesarean sections were made by White doctors who used Black women as test subjects, usually withou…
In May, a story went viral. A woman in Georgia, Adriana Smith, had been on a ventilator since February. She had been declared brain dead, and her family was ready to take her off the ventilator, but they were not allowed to do so. When Smith suffered a blood clot in her brain, she was nine weeks pregnant, and because of Georgia's strict abortion laws, which prohibit abortion after the sixth week, taking Smith off the ventilator would be consider…
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