***Trigger warning, this episode contains swearing and is talking about death and inhumane practices. Be warned.   Adriana Smith did not give birth. Adriana couldn’t give birth. Adriana was unalive. Adriana died in February 2025 because she didn’t receive a life-saving medical procedure. Adriana was pronounced brain dead in February but was kept alive for a further 114 days. 114 days. Why? Because Adriana was pregnant, and the white man wanted to play GOD! Let’s back up a bit. For me, and this isn’t about me, I find this difficult to share. It’s harrowing, horrific, cruel and downright racist. But share it I must even when it pains me, it’s much worst for Adriana’s family who had gone through a whole heap of fucking shit and continue to do so. This ‘experiment’ is triggering and is history repeating itself again and again, blatantly right in front of us. NOW. And what are we going to do about it? I’m writing and sharing it with you now as a start. In February this year, Adriana Smith, a 30 year old nurse based in Atlanta, Georgia, went to hospital where she worked, went to her people, complaining of an intense headache. No tests were run. Adriana was sent home with pain relief. The next morning her boyfriend awoke to Adriana gurgling and struggling to breathe. Emergency services were called and Adriana was rushed to hospital. There they finally carried out a cat scan to establish that Adriana had blood clots on her brain. You have to ask why wasn’t this test carried out the day before, in time to probably save her life? I’ll tell you why, because of racism and sexism within the medical institution that results in black people, black women in particular not being listened to when we express pain. Apparently, black women don’t feel pain. We have a higher pain threshold than anyone else, so if we’re complaining about pain within our own bodies, we’re lying. The pain is that bad so just shut up and put up the practice goes. We are not given the rightful respect of being experts of our own bodies and knowing that we are in pain. Knowing that something is wrong.Read this article for more about this. Let me continue. So the hospital calls Adriana’s mother to say they want to complete a procedure that will ease the pressure on Adriana’s brain and can they have her permission to do so. Of course her mother agrees. This procedure will save her daughter’s life. The hospital, Emory Hospital in the state of Georgia, called back not long afterwards to say they weren’t going to bother with the procedure. They couldn’t do it because Adriana was pregnant. Adriana was 8 weeks pregnant. I’m not sure if she knew she was pregnant or not before she went into hospital complaining of headaches. Adriana was pronounced brain dead soon after this. The doctors didn’t give Adriana’s family any choice, they put Adriana on a life support machine. This was against Adriana’s wishes as she had a do not resuscitate order and was against her family’s wishes also. The hospital did not have Adriana’s or her family’s consent to follow this course of action. But the hospital acted as if they did. They disrespected Adriana in life as well as in death as they kept her alive on a ventilator, pumping her body with a cocktail of drugs all in the name of saving the foetus. The hospital kept Adriana’s body alive while she was brain dead all in the name of the law as they claimed that the law of the state would make it illegal to allow the baby to die within it’s mother. They claimed it would be an illegal termination and they could be prosecuted. Therefore they chose to go against the wishes of Adriana, taking away her personhood, autonomy, bodily rights, reproductive rights and even when she couldn’t speak for herself, her family spoke up for her rights. They were all disallowed, dismissed and Adriana was kept alive solely as a human incubator. The hospital in the state of Georgia cruelly used Adriana in a sick, warped medical experiment to find out what they