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Georgia hospital keeps brain-dead pregnant woman alive due to abortion ban [View all]
Tragic and pathetic.
Georgia hospital keeps brain-dead pregnant woman alive due to abortion ban
“Every day that goes by, it’s more cost, more trauma, more questions,” Adriana Smith's mother told a local NBC News affiliate.
May 16, 2025, 4:54 PM EDT / Updated May 16, 2025, 7:22 PM EDT
By Allison Detzel
In February, a pregnant woman in Georgia was rushed to a hospital after experiencing intense headaches. There, a CT scan showed blood clots in Adriana Smith’s brain, and the 30-year-old nurse was soon declared brain-dead, NBC affiliate WXIA-TV reported.
Three months later, her mother says Smith is being kept alive with ventilators due to the state’s strict abortion law.
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At the time of her hospitalization, Smith was nine weeks pregnant with her second child. Newkirk says her daughter is currently 21 weeks pregnant. The family says doctors at Emory University Hospital have said that they are not legally allowed to consider any options.
“It should have been left up to the family,” Newkirk said, adding: “I’m not saying that we would have chose to terminate her pregnancy, but [what] I’m saying is: We should have had a choice.”
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https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/family-forced-brain-dead-pregnant-woman-alive-rcna207319
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