Hospital tells family brain-dead woman must carry fetus due to abortion ban
A Georgia family is speaking out after their daughter, Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old nurse and mother, was declared brain dead in February — but has remained on life support for more than three months because she was pregnant. Intense headaches According to her family, doctors at Emory University Hospital told them Georgia’s strict abortion law, which bans the procedure once cardiac activity is detected (typically around six weeks), prevented them from removing life-sustaining equipment — even though Smith is legally dead. ”She’s…
