In the aftermath of Adriana Smith’s death and the birth of her son, Chance, the noise on social media has become deafening. TikTok videos, stitched outrage clips, comment rants, and performative anger have taken over the conversation. But here’s the reality: the loudest voices are often the farthest from the facts.
Let’s put this into professional, unfiltered perspective.
❗ FACT: Adriana Smith’s Family Gave Consent
Adriana was declared brain-dead—a medically and legally recognized form of death. Her mother, April Newkirk, and her partner gave explicit consent for her to remain on life support so that her unborn child could be delivered. The hospital did not make the decision without them. This was not a hidden agenda. This was not forced. This was their choice—as a family.
Reducing their decision to a “science experiment” is not only false, it's disrespectful. If you're screaming for justice while dismissing the consent of the family involved, you're not standing for truth—you're standing in hypocrisy.
❗ FACT: Baby Chance Is a Human Being
Let’s be medically precise: “fetus” is a Latin term meaning offspring or young one. It is not a placeholder term to deny a human’s value. Baby Chance was alive in Adriana’s womb. He had a heartbeat. He was developing. He was viable.
Now, he is fighting for his life in the NICU. That is human struggle—not biology in theory. Yet social media users have said things like calling him a “geunia pig”—mocking his premature birth and claiming he should’ve been aborted. That kind of language is not edgy. It’s inhuman.
You cannot call yourself a defender of women’s rights if you dehumanize a child fighting for survival.
❗ FACT: Black Trauma Should Not Be Exploited
Yes, the Black community has a documented history of medical exploitation. But this case is not one of them. Adriana Smith was a registered nurse, a mother of a 7-year-old, and a woman surrounded by loved ones. Her family made the informed decision to sustain her body until her son could be born. This wasn’t experimentation. It was a difficult but intentional choice.
Claiming she was used as an incubator or a test subject is a dangerous manipulation of historic pain. It erases the agency and dignity of her own family. To use Black suffering to serve an agenda—especially when the facts don’t support it—is not advocacy. It’s exploitation.
❗ FACT: Outrage Culture Doesn’t Care About Truth
Most people speaking the loudest weren’t at the hospital. They weren’t by Adriana’s bed. They didn’t consult her doctors. And yet, they speak as if they were eyewitnesses to injustice. This is what social media rewards: anger without context.
But this case deserves better. Adriana’s story should not be clickbait. Her son’s life should not be a trend. And her family’s grief should not be material for content.
This isn’t activism. It’s opportunism.
❗ FACT: You Can’t Defend Autonomy While Rejecting a Family’s Autonomy
The contradiction is clear. The same voices screaming “my body, my choice” are mocking a family for choosing life. You can’t demand bodily autonomy and then ridicule those who make a different, life-affirming choice.
And to those claiming that Adriana “needs justice,” while calling her newborn son non-human, disposable, or grotesque—you’ve exposed yourself. This is not justice. It is selective rage, built on contradiction, not principle.
✅ A Note of Truth and Gratitude
Baby Chance lives. That is the outcome.
His future is unknown. His journey will be hard. But his life is real. And he deserves to be seen as nothing less than human.
To Adriana Smith’s family: thank you. Thank you for making a decision that was not easy, not popular, and not safe from public scrutiny—but right. You allowed life to continue, even in death. You honored Adriana’s memory with courage.
To her 7-year-old son: your mother didn’t get to raise you or your brother—but her love lives in the choice your family made.
To those online distorting this story: your opinions are noted. But facts remain louder.
This blog exists to strip away the lies. This platform exists to remind people that truth does not need approval to be true.
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