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June 18, 2025

Brain-Dead Georgia Woman Taken Off Life Support After Baby Was Delivered
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In Georgia, a woman who was declared brain dead nearly four months ago
has given birth to a baby boy via emergency C-section. Doctors had kept
the mother, Adriana Smith, on life support against the wishes of her
distraught family. Her body was kept on life support due to the state's
near-total abortion ban. Adriana Smith's mother has described the
monthslong ordeal as torture. Adriana was scheduled to be taken off life
support on Tuesday.


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