US EditionLife Support to Be Removed from Georgia Woman Kept Alive Under Abortion Law After Baby Delivered
- Adriana Smith, a 31-year-old nurse from Georgia who was kept on life support after being pronounced brain dead in February during her pregnancy, delivered her son Chance prematurely through an emergency C-section on June 13, 2025.
- Doctors continued life support for Smith to carry the fetus under Georgia's abortion law, which bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, though officials clarify the law does not mandate such care.
- Chance was born around 4:41 a.m., weighing about 1 pound 13 ounces, and remains in the NICU, while Smith's family organized support and described the decision to maintain life support as painful but full of hope.
- Kara Murray, spokesperson for the Georgia Attorney General, explained that the LIFE Act does not mandate continuing life support for women who have been declared brain dead and emphasized that discontinuing life support is not considered ending a pregnancy.
- Smith was removed from life support on June 17, 2025, and her case has sparked national discussion about the ethical and legal challenges posed by restrictive abortion laws in medical decisions.
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Baby born to brain-dead woman on life support as grandmother says 'we just want prayers'
A baby has been born to a 31 year old woman in Georgia who has been declared brain-dead and on life support since February - with the mother saying she is expected to be okay
The baby of a woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead and has been on life support since February this year was born early on Friday morning, said her mother, April Newkirk. The woman told WXIA-TV radio station that Adriana Smith’s 31-year-old baby was prematurely born due to an emergency caesarean section on Friday morning, reported Atlanta station on Monday night. The baby, called Chance, weighs around a pound and 13 ounces (0,8221 kilogr…
Brain-Dead Woman Who Gave Birth Taken Off Life Support
A pregnant woman who was declared brain-dead months ago has been taken off life support after giving birth to a baby. Adriana Smith was declared brain-dead in February after blood clots formed in her brain. At the time she was about 10 weeks pregnant. Since then, her family has been forced by Georgia state law to keep her on life support so that her body may carry the baby to term. The baby was delivered June 13 by C-section at Emory University …
Brain-Dead Woman’s Baby Is Delivered Prematurely
A Georgia woman who was declared brain-dead in February has had her baby delivered via emergency cesarean section, 11 Alive reported. Adriana Smith has been kept alive on life support for three months after succumbing to brain clots earlier in the year. April Newkirk, Smith’s mother, said the baby, Chance, was born prematurely on June 13 weighing 1 pound 13 ounces and is in the newborn intensive care unit. Smith, 31, was to be taken off life sup…
Baby of Georgia woman on life support has been delivered through cesarean section, family says • Georgia Recorder
Supporters of Adriana Smith, the brain-dead pregnant Georgia woman being kept on life support, released balloons at an event marking what would have been Smith's 31st birthday on June 15 at Park Avenue Baptist Church in Atlanta. Ross Williams/Georgia RecorderThe brain-dead pregnant woman who became a flashpoint in the national debate over reproductive rights and Georgia’s six-week abortion ban has delivered her baby, her family has announced. Do…
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