Georgia forces brain-dead pregnant woman to be kept alive, NGO denounces
Abortion restrictions in Georgia, United States, Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old pregnant woman who has been brain dead for more than 90 days, is being forced to remain alive artificially. , according to civil organizations and Democratic congressmen who denounced it today.
Adriana Smith was a nurse in Atlanta. Emory University Hospital declared Smith brain dead in February, and her family has been forced to keep her alive since Georgia only allows abortions up to the sixth week , according to the group Reproductive Freedom For All.
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The young woman's mother, April Newkirk, described that suffers "torture" because doctors demand that her daughter continue to breathe with ventilators until 32 weeks of gestation.
The mother claims that the family has no decision-making power because after 2022, when the US Supreme Court revoked the constitutional right to abortion , Georgia has a law that prohibits terminating a pregnancy from the moment the embryo shows cardiac activity.
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The woman's pregnancy still has 11 weeks left to reach "the point of viability," so she will remain in that state until then, the Congressional Reproductive Freedom Caucus warned.
"This is the cruelty of abortion bans at their finest. This is not pro-woman, pro-life , or pro-family ; this is inhumanity ," the Caucus , chaired by Democrats Diana Degette and Ayanna Pressley, said in a statement Friday.
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