Georgia mom declared brain dead taken off life support days after baby born
- Adriana Smith has been declared brain dead for over 90 days and will be taken off life support on Tuesday, according to Newkirk.
- Georgia's Republican Attorney General Chris Carr stated that the law does not require life support for a brain-dead individual.
- Carr clarified that removing life support is not an action with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy.
- The decision to continue life support was painful but based on love for the baby, Chance, as reported by her family to the BBC.
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A brain-dead woman in the US state of Georgia has given birth to a baby boy. Adriana Smith, 30, had been kept on life support by the hospital for months, against the wishes of her family. The premature baby was delivered via emergency C-section and is now in intensive care. Smith's mother, April Newkirk, confirmed to local US news station WXIA-TV that her grandchild, who has been named Chance, was born last Friday. The baby weighs just over 800 …
Adriana Smith's story shows the excesses of strict abortion laws in the USA: Despite her brain death, the pregnant woman was kept alive for four months – without a say in the family. Now her baby was born.
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