The baby of a brain -dead woman who could be kept alive by doctors who were concerned The state of Georgia's “heartbeat” abortion laws was issued in the United States.
With a weight of 538 grams, the baby chance was born on June 13 by a caesarean section department and was quickly brought to the intensive care unit for newborns, where it stays.
His mother Adriana Smith was then taken from life preservation.
What quickly began to go to international news as a history of a young mother who experienced a headache and the latest example of the consequences of the laws used by US states after the protection of Roe against Wates was revoked.
How did that happen?
The 30-year-old mother and nurse was about nine weeks in pregnancy with her second child when she started experiencing a headache.
Her mother, April Newkirk, informed the local news agencies that she had been denied a CT scan and had returned home.
April Newkirk, Adriana Smith's mother, takes part in a celebration of her daughter's life. ((Reuters: Megan Varner)))
The next day she woke up for air and made gurgling noises.
Her friend called 911 and she was taken to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with her brain cliffer.
She quickly deteriorated and was declared brain dead within a few hours.
Smith's family was informed by the hospital that they would have to be kept on life conservation to keep their pregnancy until they could provide the fetus based on the Georgia law, which “personality” is applicable to every fetus whose heartbeat can be recognized medicarily.
Three months later, Ms. Newkirk told the local media, seeing how her daughter breathed with machines again and again, was like “torture”.
Adriana Smith was kept on life for almost four months at the Emory University Hospital. ((File: Reuters)))
She said the family regularly visited her daughter with her five -year -old son.
Ms. Newkirk told local news channels 11alive that the family wanted the baby, but the choice should have been “not” the state “.
This week was also the 31st birthday of Adriana Smith.
Family and community members gathered in a church in Atlanta for a rally and celebration of their lives, where they cut a birthday cake for them and release white balloons.
Family and parishioners gather in Adriana Smith's birthday to publish balloons, celebrate their lives and gather against Georgia's abortion ban. ((Reuters: Megan Varner)))
Baby chance is “fights”
Before the birth of chance, there were great concerns about his health.
Ms. Newkirk informed the local news network WXIA that the family's doctors said that the fetus had liquid in his brain.
She also shared concerns that he would be born with loss of vision or could not run.
The hospital, Emory Healthcare, announced the Associated Press that it could not comment on data protection rules, but published an explanation that it was used by a consensus of clinical experts, medical literature and legal guidance to support our providers, since it is used to meet individual treatment recommendations in accordance with compliance laws of Georgia and the other laws applicable. Deliver our top priorities.
“Heartbeat laws”
The Republican governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, signed an almost ban on abortion from the state in 2019.
The abortion ban from 'heartbeat' takes effectively
The law, which also defines a “person” who includes an “unborn child”, was blocked before it came into force because it violated the right to abortion stipulated by the Supreme Court of the United States in his Landmark Roe V Wade judgment.
But when this law was lifted in 2022, the path for the state law was immediately entered into force.
Georgia's law prohibits the most abortions as soon as there is “demonstrable human heartbeat”.
Heart activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within an embryo six weeks after pregnancy before many women realize that they are pregnant.
Georgia's law contains exceptions for rape and incest as long as a police report is submitted.
It also ensures later abortions when the mother's life is endangered or a serious illness makes a fetus unprofitable.
Monica Simpson, Executive Director of Sistersong, the senior plaintiff in a lawsuit that questioned the abortion law in Georgia, said the Associated Press in May that the situation was problematic.
“Your family deserves the right to make decisions about her medical decisions,” said Ms. Simpson in an explanation.
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“Instead, they have over 90 days of retaumation, expensive medical costs and cruelty, unable to not be able to be able to remedy and move towards healing.”
In May, the Attorney General of Georgia, Chris Carr, published an explanation that the six -week law in Georgia does not require any doctors to keep women alive after living with the brain for life preservation.
“The removal of life preservation is not an action with the aim of ending a pregnancy,” said Kara Murray, spokesman for Mr. Carr.
Thaddeus Pope, a bioethical and lawyer at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, said, while some countries have laws that have the removal of the treatment of a pregnant woman who is alive but unable or brainary is not from them.
“Removing the mechanical ventilation or other support of the woman would not be an abortion.”
“Continued treatment is not legally necessary.”
The Senator of Georgia State Ed Settler, a Republican who sponsored the 2019 law, said he supported emory interpretation.
“I think it is completely appropriate that the hospital does everything it can to save the child's life,” said Setezler.
“I think this is an unusual circumstance, but I think it underlines the value of innocent human life. I think the hospital acts appropriate.”
Has something like that happened before?
A similar case took place in Texas 10 years ago when a brain -dead woman was kept on life preservation for about two months because she was pregnant.
What is Roe V Wade?
A judge finally decided that the hospital was dismissed by state law and that life support was eliminated.
Georgia's abortion ban was already in the spotlight.
Last year Prublica reported that two women had died in Georgia after they had not received proper medical treatment for complications by taking abortion pills.
The stories of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller joined the presidential breed, with the democrat Kamala Harris said that the deaths were the result of the abortion bans that came into force in Georgia and elsewhere after the envelope of Roe V Wade.
