Her family announced that the brain -dead pregnant woman, who became a flashpoint in the national debate about reproductive rights, and the six -week abortion ban in Georgia has given up her baby.
The doctors told the 30-year-old mother and the nurse Adriana Smith that she had no chance of recovery after a series of blood clots in her brain left her brain in mid-February, when she was pregnant in about two months pregnant. Since then, Smith has been kept on life conservation to support pregnancy.
The baby, chance, was delivered on Friday by an emergency Caesarean section and brought to the intensive care unit for newborns. Smith's mother, April Newkirk, told 11alive News that the child was born prematurely with a pound of 13 ounces.
April Newkirk, mother of Adriana Smith, the brainy pregnant woman Georgia woman, who is kept in life support, serves windows of a birthday cake at a dark event that would have been Smith's 31st birthday on June 16 in Park Avenue Baptist Church in Atlanta. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
Newkirk said she demands prayers for the safety and health of her grandson.
“At the moment we don't know everything because it is so early. So you can't say everything,” she said. “Prayer changes things. And we just hope and pray that he is doing well.”
Newkirk said 11alive that her daughter will be taken from life support on Tuesday afternoon.
Smith became a flashpoint in the debate about reproductive rights and the six -week ban on the abortion of Georgia, after the family had told the news agencies that the doctors told them that although they had no chance of recovery, Smith's organs would continue to work in order not to violate the law of Georgia.
The Attorney General of Georgia, Chris Carr, said that the law does not require such measures.
“There is nothing in the law of life in which medical specialists keep a woman in life support after the brain's death,” he said in an earlier explanation. “The removal of life preservation is not an action” with the aim of ending a pregnancy. “
Newkirk said she was frustrated that Smith was looking for the blood clot who would take her life. She said her daughter had been released from the hospital without proper tests.
“All women should have the choice of their bodies. And I think I want people to know that [Adriana] Was a nurse, an margin. The same field in which she worked is the same people who failed. Can you understand what I say? They did not work these extra parts, not even the extra parts. You didn't even carry you CT scan. That would have discovered it. “
Adriana Smith's birthday cake, June 16 in Park Avenue Baptist Church in Atlanta. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
On Sunday, Newkirk was together with other family members and supporters for a dark celebration for Smith's 31st birthday in Park Avenue Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Several dozen people sang happy birthday and let white balloons released to heaven. Smith's mother helped serving slices of pink strawberry cake in the sanctuary when children laughed and screamed behind the pews.
Smith's family did not speak to the press and did not mention the birth of chance at that time, but the organizers invited to a rally in the church protection area after the private event.
Congratulations and activists kept the Georgia heat away with “Black Lives Matter” fans, as supporters of health and abortion rights in front of an altar with sunflowers and yellow and white roses between pillars made of blue and pink birthday balloons.
Among them was Allison Coffman, Managing Director of Amplify Georgia Collaborative, a group of reproductive rights.
“Adriana Smith did not think to die. She knew something was wrong and she went to the hospital and she was refused,” said Coffman. “Unfortunately, this is not a unique story. Pregnant women throughout Georgia have been given refused, delayed and distorted care.”
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