Braindead woman Adriana Smith forced to be kept alive in Georgia due to draconian law

A pregnant woman has been forced to be kept alive for nearly three months, despite being brain-dead, due to a US state’s draconian abortion laws.

Adriana Smith, 30, was around nine weeks pregnant in February when she began experiencing intense headaches, which her local hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, brushed off.

Smith’s mum, April Newkirk, told a local news outlet: ‘They didn’t do any tests, no CT scan.

‘If they had done that or kept her overnight, they would have caught it. It could have been prevented.’

The morning after her hospital visit, Smith was found gurgling and struggling to breathe by her boyfriend and rushed to the hospital, where she was declared brain dead.

In 2022, Georgia’s Supreme Court reinstated a ban on abortions after six weeks of gestation, only three weeks of pregnancy.

This ban means that Smith’s family has been forced to keep their daughter on life support until her child is born.

Adriana Smith already has a young son, who believes his mother is ‘sleeping’ (Picture: Facebook) She was around nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead (Picture: Facebook)

Smith’s mum said she brings her daughter’s young son to see his mum in hospital – but the young boy thinks his mother is just ‘sleeping’.

‘It’s torture for me. I see my daughter breathing, but she’s not there,’ she added.

Doctors reportedly told Smith’s mum they were not legally allowed to take her off life support, as her case was a ‘legal grey area’.

Babies can survive outside of their mother’s womb beginning at 32 weeks of gestation, but Smith is currently 21 weeks along.

‘But every day that goes by, it’s more cost, more trauma, more questions,’ Smith’s mum, Newkirk, said.

‘She’s pregnant with my grandson. But he may be blind, may not be able to walk, may not survive once he’s born.

The young mother’s situation has been described as a legal ‘grey area’ (Picture: Facebook) Smith was found struggling to breathe by her boyfriend (Picture: Facebook)

‘This decision should’ve been left to us. Now we’re left wondering what kind of life he’ll have — and we’re going to be the ones raising him.’

Access to safe abortions in the United States has become increasingly difficult as Republican lawmakers work to make the procedure illegal.

In late December, a US state introduced a bill allowing executions for abortions.

Republican lawmakers in South Carolina pushed the doctrine of ‘fetal personhood,’ which would grant fetuses at any stage of development the exact same legal rights and protections as people.

South Carolina currently has a six-week abortion ban in effect. If passed, this bill would effectively enact a total abortion ban.

This would make abortion at any stage of pregnancy equivalent to murder under state law, and a person who undergoes the procedure could face life in prison or the death penalty as a result.

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