My sister is finishing nursing school and got placed in a hospital an hour from her house. She called me on her drive home because it's pouring rain and she just got done working a 14 hour shift and said she needs something to keep her awake. She told me she's in the maternity ward this month, and a patient of hers had a baby, said she didn't care about the thing and wanted it gone, changed her mind when she found out the baby was a girl, then didn't care and wanted the baby gone when the baby immediately started seizing. As my sister is trying to stabilize the baby, the mom grabs her purse and starts shooting up. She then punched my sister, who nearly dropped this brand new, seizing baby, and stole her phone. So my sister goes into the hall (with the baby, obviously) and calls for security. They get in there, they take the fentanyl from this woman, and then do nothing else. She told security and other hospital staff that she's been using her whole pregnancy to try to kill the baby, but it clearly didn't work. As this is happening, my sister has passed the baby off to an ICU nurse because the poor thing's oxygen is critically low. The woman got up once hospital cops left and ran off into the sunset. Like. Left her clothes behind and is just wandering around in a hospital gown, probably off to find more fent. I just find it insane that a woman can be imprisoned in this state for having an abortion, but this chick was using hard drugs her whole pregnancy and birthed a child that probably will not make it through the night and she just.... leaves. My sister was sobbing about it. She's always loved kids, and was recently told she'll probably have a lot of trouble having kids of her own, so I think seeing this woman not give a single fuck about her baby hit her hard. And I understand not everyone who gets pregnant wants the kid. That's why safe abortions should be allowed. But like. How fucked in the head do you have to be to know you're pregnant and keep doing fentanyl even though it's clearly not killing the baby? Just get a fucking abortion. You're already engaging in illegal behavior. Fuck. The baby was flown to the nearest children's hospital, and a friend of my sister's who works there said the baby won't stop having seizures and, if she survives, will not have any quality of life/will basically be braindead (or damn near) from the beginning. I told my sister I could never do a job like that, because if I met that woman, I'd end up in prison. You don't fuck with the lives of innocents. If you want to do fent until your body stops turning back on, have fun. But you're a huge piece of shit the second you involve a kid in that. And her not terminating the pregnancy means that's a whole kid now, not just a fetus, and that that kid won't ever live because her mom was such a piece of shit. Same type of anger I have for people who would, like, throw puppies in the river so they don't have to deal with them. The world fucking sucks. I hope that chick gets run over by someone's big princess truck walking around in all this rain. She kinda deserves horrible shit.
