Georgia Abortion Law Forces Brain-Dead Woman To Stay On Life Support For Months

Image credit: AI generated image by Vecstock via Freepik. Article by Sara Boboltz. HuffPost – May 15, 2025.

Family members of Adriana Smith, a brain-dead woman in Georgia, say their choice to end Smith’s life support has been out of reach for three months and counting because she is pregnant — and doctors in the state are legally obligated to try to deliver a baby that can survive outside the womb. Georgia is one of several states with extreme health care laws on the books that make it illegal to end a pregnancy in nearly all cases. […]

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