Adriana Smith, 30, was declared brain dead in February, when she was eight weeks pregnant, but was forced to stay on life support

She was hospitalized in early February for intense headaches, and doctors found multiple blood clots in her brain

Due to the state’s strict anti-abortion laws her medical team kept her artificially alive in an effort to save the fetus

Her baby boy was delivered prematurely, but healthy on June 13, by emergency Cesarean section

Smith will now be taken off life support while care for the infant named ‘Chance’, will be provided by his grandmother 

Adriana Smith, [photo], was declared brain dead in February, when she was eight weeks pregnant. Due to Georgia’s strict anti-abortion laws her medical team kept her artificially alive in an effort to save the fetus. Her baby was delivered by C-Section on Friday 

A brain dead Georgia woman who was kept alive via life support because she was pregnant, may now be allowed to rest after giving birth to a baby, via emergency C-section who for now is been kept in the NICU.
Adriana Smith, was declared brain dead in February, when she nearly nine weeks pregnant, but due to the state’s strict anti-abortion laws her medical team kept her artificially alive in an effort to save the fetus.
The 30-year-old nurse who was mother to a seven year-old son and worked as an Registered Nurse at Emory University Teaching, had gone to Northside Hospital in Atlanta complaining of terrible headaches and difficulty breathing.
After the hospital failed to perform a CT Scan and sent her home armed only with a prescription, she was transferred to Emory University Teaching hospital when the symptoms returned, intensified, the next morning. Her boyfriend noticing breathing had become a struggle, called 911.
The scan performed doctors at Emory, revealed the presence of several blood clots in Smith’s brain.
According to Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, the doctors initially told the family they would perform a procedure to relieve the pressure on the brain.
However, they then called back to say they had decided against attempting the surgery. Shortly after the mother-of-one was declared brain-dead.

Adriana Smith, [photo], a 30-year-old nurse, was nearly nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead, but she was being kept alive after she was declared brain dead due to Georgia’s heartbeat bill.

Smith’s family revealed her baby boy, arrived prematurely on Friday, June 13 by emergency Cesarean section. The infant whom they decided to name Chance, weighs about one pound and 13 ounces, and is in the NICU.  
For April Newkirk, the name Chance seemed fitting for her grandson ‘because I feel like he had a second chance at life.’
He was born three months early, around 26 weeks, ‘is expected to be OK,’ the grandmother said,
adding ‘He’s just fighting. We just want prayers for him. Just keep praying for him. He’s here now.’  Doctors had hoped to perform the C-section birth closer to August to give the baby the best chance at survival. His mother will now be taken off life support.

Smith, seen [photo], with her older child, according to reports, will now be taken off life support. Her mother had said it was ‘torture’ seeing her in the hospital every day.

Georgia passed the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act in 2019, ruling medical professionals can’t perform an abortion if a heartbeat is detected. 
The law, which did not come into effect until three years later when Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022, cited two exceptions in the case of a medical emergency as defined in the law as an event where the abortion was necessary to save a mother’s life or ‘the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman,’ OR if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.
Abortions can also be performed if a medical professional believes that the child would be born with a ‘chromosomal anomaly’ where the baby would die after birth. 

April Newkirk, seen [photo], with her daughter Adriana, has blamed the first hospital for not been thorough in their diagnosis. She believes that after her daughter passed on, the family should have had the choice to terminate the pregnancy

While Smith’s case represents a complicated part of the law because an abortion wouldn’t save her life, and a heartbeat was already detected in her unborn baby, the family believe that they should have had the choice to terminate the pregnancy. 
‘She’s pregnant with my grandson. But he may be blind, may not be able to walk, may not survive once he’s born,’ Newkirk said at the time. ‘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.’ 
The family was also worried about paying the mounting hospital bills from the post humus car.