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My eye was caught by the wording of "and her unborn baby," which is often used by anti-abortion people to describe a fetus, in order to push their agenda.
Having read the article: The cyclist was 7 months pregnant, and declared DOA when the ambulance arrived at the hospital.
The baby must have been delivered by a post-mortem emergency C-section, because she died in the NICU a couple days later.
So she was a newborn premature baby when she died, but not when the car (and arguably the dangerous infrastructure) killed her mother.
I'll allow it.
My first thought was: "Dang, I wonder what that one night in the NICU is going to ultimately cost the survivors."
Feels like the most American thing ever to lose one's family to dangerous infrastructure and careless driving and then also be bankrupted by the funeral and medical expenses overnight.
I wonder; generally speaking, a newborn is covered by their mother's insurance for the first 30 days. But with mom dead... I would think they still are, and this is sadly something that happens often enough there's a standard policy on it.
I came here for the same reason. Thank you for being faster than me!
Thank you for checking it out. It weirded me out as well.
I think I'd just have said pregnant woman.
Generally yes, but once the baby was born and outlived her it's a separate death. Could use "and posthumously-born baby" I suppose.