Abortion Activists Wanted Him to Die, but Now Baby Chance Is Home | The American Spectator

This is the absolute last outcome that abortion activists wanted. Baby Chance, the son of Adriana Smith, a Georgia mother who was declared brain dead at nine weeks pregnant, is now home and living with his father. (RELATED: Abortion Supporters Unleash Torrent of Hatred Against 1-Pound Baby Chance)

In an update posted to the family’s GoFundMe last month, April Newkirk, Chance’s grandmother, stated, “Chance is home doing [well] still on oxygen I won’t go into details but keep praying.”

After Adriana Smith was kept on life support so that her son would be able to live, abortion activists exploded in outrage. The fact that Adriana was still giving life to her son seemed to disgust them.

“This is hideous. This is hideous,” wrote Monica Hesse in the Washington Post. “The person who is not currently being treated as human is Adriana Smith. She is being treated as an incubator in the most literal sense of the word, her lifeless body forced to breathe so that it can sustain the struggling baby inside it.” Hesse went on to say that “absolutely perverse definitions of life and dignity and religion” were “use[d] to justify this grotesquerie.”

The organization Reproductive Freedom for All, formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America, put out a statement that read, “This is not care. This is not justice. It is a cruelty rooted in a system that refuses to see Black women as fully human, even in death.”

After Chance was born and was fighting for his life, social media users openly cheered for his death.

In a post on X that has generated over 6,400 reposts and was viewed over two million times, user @ra3lic stated, “I might be a monster for saying this, but I don’t want that child to live. Because if it grows to live and have a decent life, then we as women are doomed to never escape the role of an incubator. Adriana Smith was an experiment of a country that hates its women.”

Similarly, user @DobuitaShenmue said, “I still hope the baby doesn’t survive more than a day or two. People are seriously not understanding the precedent across the country that will happen if the baby survives. It really is the absolute WORST thing that can happen.” That statement received over 1,700 reposts.

The calls for Chance’s death after his birth reveal something telling: Abortion advocates understand that unborn babies are living human beings. What matters for them is not the recognition of life, but whether a life is considered worthy of protection. In Chance’s case, whether he was inside or outside of his mother’s womb, they still wanted his life to end. (READ MORE: The Disturbing Doctor Touring the Country to Promote Her Career of Third-Trimester Abortions)

That attitude is evident in how the media covered the story. Even with baby Chance lying in a hospital NICU, they still found ways to deny his humanity.

An article in the Guardian referred to Chance after his birth as “cells” that had grown in Adriana Smith’s uterus. “It was the state, via these machines, that pumped her heart, contracted her lungs, and pushed blood into the dead tissues of her body, so that cells could continue dividing inside her uterus,” ranted Moira Donegan in the Guardian.

Donegan further stated that Adriana Smith’s pregnancy had turned her into a “macabre marionette” and “an object that symbolized women’s degradation.”

Adriana Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, has said that she and Adriana’s father were not given the option to end Adriana’s life before Chance was born due to Georgia’s ban on abortions after a heartbeat can be detected. But there are some indications that Emory University Hospital kept Adriana on life support in accordance with other laws. In a statement to ABC News in December, the hospital did not mention the heartbeat law and said, “We are foremost guided by patient autonomy and in situations where patients cannot express their preferences, we rely on their advanced directive, health care agent or legally authorized surrogate decision maker.” Additionally, the state’s attorney general’s office has stated that the heartbeat law does not require keeping a pregnant mother on life support.

Regardless of the true reasoning for the hospital’s decision to keep Adriana on life support, which is unknown because her medical records have not been released, abortion activists have used Adriana’s case to argue against Georgia’s abortion laws. After Chance was born, Democratic congressmen, including Rep. Ayanna Pressley, introduced a resolution calling for state laws banning or limiting abortion to be repealed.

Unfortunately, even Chance’s grandmother, April Newkirk, has gotten in on the action, using her daughter’s case to argue against Georgia’s heartbeat ban and to say she should have been given the option to end Smith’s life support — and, in so doing, end her grandson’s life.

“I feel like we should have had a choice, but we didn’t,” she said. “I really think it should be a choice, I just do.” Earlier in that same interview, Newkirk cited Georgia’s heartbeat law as a reason her daughter was kept on life support.

Newkirk has voiced her support for the 18 billboards that were put up last month in Atlanta that say “JUSTICE for Adriana Smith.” Newkirk tied her support for the billboards to laws she would like to see changed in Georgia. “Please Please vote so no one else hurts,” she said. “We need changes with the laws in georgia.”

One wonders at how abortion supporters are reacting to the adorable pictures Chance’s family is uploading of him these days. One shows him smiling with a lion toy, and another shows him being hugged by his older brother.

It must deeply bother them that Chance stands as a living testimony to the fact that unborn children are individual human beings, and not — as they sometimes like to pretend — mere cells that are part of their mothers’ bodies.

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