A pregnant woman in Georgia was declared dead after a medical emergency for brain, and the doctors have kept them for a living for three months so far so that the baby enables enough time for the birth of the baby in Georgia, say strict anti-abdominal law, say family members.
It could be kept in this state for months.
The case is the latest consequence of abortion banks that have lifted the national abortion rights of Roe V Wade in 2022 in some states since the Supreme US Court of Justice.
Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old mother and nurse, was explained for brain dead in February in February what she is legally dead-her mother, April Newkirk, to Atlanta TV Station Wxia.
Newkirk said her daughter had an intensive headache more than three months ago and went in Atlantas Northside Hospital, where she received medication and was released. The next morning her friend woke up for air and called 911. Emory University Hospital decided that she had blood clots in her brain and that she was declared brain fat.
Newkirk said Smith was now 21 weeks pregnant. Removing breathing pipes and other life -saving devices would probably kill the fetus.
Northside did not answer a request for comments on Thursday. Emory Healthcare said that, based on data protection regulations, she could not comment on a single case, but published an explanation in which it is used by “consensus of clinical experts, medical literature and legal guidelines to support our providers, since they are given individual treatment recommendations in line with compliance with Georgia's abortation laws and all other applicable laws and the favorable laws Abortion laws and the security of the patients we issue. “
According to Smith's family, emory doctors have told them that they are not allowed to stop or remove the devices that keep their breathing, since the abortion of the state can be demonstrated in the fetus according to cardiac activity – generally in about six weeks after pregnancy.
The law was adopted in 2019, but only after Roe's rise against Wade in 2022 Dobbs against Jackson Women's Health Organization, which opened the door to the state abortion prohibitions. Twelve states force bans for abortion in all pregnancy stages and three more have bans like Georgia's that start after about six weeks.
Like the others, the ban on Georgia contains an exception if an abortion is necessary to maintain the life of women.
Smith's family, including her five -year -old son, still visits her in the hospital.
Newkirk said Wxia that the family said that the fetus had liquid in the brain and that they are concerned about his health.
“She is pregnant with my grandson. But he may be blind, may not be able to walk, cannot survive if he was born,” said Newkirk. She did not say whether the family wants Smith to be removed from life preservation.
Monica Simpson, the executive director of sisters, the senior plaintiff in a lawsuit that the abortion law in Georgia questioned, said the situation was problematic.
“Your family deserves the right to make decisions about her medical decisions,” said Simpson in an explanation. “Instead, they have over 90 days of retaumization, expensive medical costs and cruelty, unable to not be able to be able to remedy and move towards healing.”
