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May 16, 2025

Georgia Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Brain-Dead Pregnant Woman on Life Support
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In Georgia, a pregnant woman who's been declared brain dead has been
kept on life support for three months, against the wishes of her
distraught family, because of the state's abortion ban. Adriana Smith, a
30-year-old mother and nurse, has been legally dead since February
following a medical emergency. But doctors have kept her on breathing
machines because her fetus, just 9 weeks old at the time of Smith's
medical emergency, was old enough to have detectable cardiac activity.
Adriana Smith's mother said, "It's torture for me. I see my daughter
breathing, but she's not there."


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