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That's maybe what I hate most about this country.
Freedom is equated with convenience, and absolutely nothing is allowed to come between a person and their convenience, or it is felt as a breach of their liberty, even if it is a significant public good. (Hence why we saw so much fighting during COVID.)
It seems to me - as an overseas observer - that the balance of power between grown-ups and adult-aged-toddlers is unhealthily shifted towards the toddlers.
I mean it's pretty bad in plenty of other places, but the usa seems to have it extreme and widespread. At least based on what things like this internet forum reports.
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 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.
It's impossible to know whether this tragedy could have been prevented if the bike lanes were still there.
It is possible to extrapolate though. While it looks like the bike lanes were only paint, they did provide a wider space to ride in since they replaced a driving lane. Of course this was all undone when drivers got upset. I hope those people are found and interviewed now that these deaths have occurred.
What makes this worse is that she was riding with her whole family, and they had to witness it.
But is the bike lobby willing to support my political career to the car lobbies extent? If not why should i care? /s