Adriana Smith’s son, Chance, is home from the hospital and doing well, according to an update posted by his grandmother, April Newkirk, on her GoFundMe.
On February 18, Newkirk wrote:
First of all I want to tell everyone Thank you for your continued support and prayers. I have an announcement to make look who’s home. Chance is home doing will [sic] still on oxygen…chase was do [sic] happy to see chance it made me cry im your big brother.
Chase is Adriana Smith’s other son and Chance’s big brother. In the photo above, you can see the proud big brother holding little Chance, with Newkirk in the background.
Both Newkirk and Chase are delighted that Chance is home. But he almost died with his mother.
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Most of my subscribers know the story of Adriana Smith by now, but here’s a brief recap.
Smith was the pregnant woman in Georgia who was on life support after being declared brain-dead. Her case ignited a media firestorm when it broke.
Smith was a victim of medical neglect. She went to the hospital with an agonizing headache. Doctors didn’t do a brain scan. Had they done the scan, they would’ve seen that there were blood clots in her brain. She needed brain surgery. Instead, she was given Tylenol and sent home.
By the time she came back to the hospital the next day, it was too late. She was pronounced brain dead.
There is no way of knowing if Smith would have survived if doctors had discovered the clots and given her treatment. But by sending her home, they guaranteed her death.
All too often, Black patients are turned away at hospitals because their pain isn’t taken seriously. I have worked with two Black medical professionals in the past three years – one home health aide and one visiting nurse.
Both have a story of being turned away at the ER when they were experiencing life-threatening health problems.
LifeNews Note: Sarah Terzo covered the abortion issue for over 13 years as a professional journalist. In this capacity, she has written nearly a thousand articles about abortion and read over 850 books on the topic. She has been researching and writing about abortion since attending The College of New Jersey (class of 1997) where she minored in Women’s Studies. This article originally appeared on Sarah Terzo’s Substack. You can read more of her articles here.
