Funeral held for brain-dead woman kept alive due to Georgia abortion law

The funeral for the Georgia woman who was brain-dead but kept alive by ventilators because of the state’s abortion law was held Saturday in an Atlanta suburb, NBC affiliate WXIA of Atlanta reported
The funeral for the Georgia woman who was brain-dead but kept alive by ventilators because of the state’s abortion law was held Saturday in an Atlanta suburb, NBC affiliate WXIA of Atlanta reported.
The funeral of Adriana Smith took place at Fairfield Baptist Church in Lithonia, WXIA reported, and drew a crowd that included a number of Smith’s fellow nurses and other members of the public.
Smith, who turned 31 in June, was declared brain-dead in February after a CT scan found multiple blood clots in her brain, her mother, April Newkirk, told WXIA earlier this year.
She was nine weeks pregnant when her boyfriend rushed her to the hospital after he woke up to find her gasping for air and making what he described as gargling noises, Newkirk told WXIA.
Because of Georgia’s strict abortion law — known as the LIFE Act, which makes abortion illegal after six weeks of pregnancy — Smith was kept alive until her child could be born and survive on his own, according to WXIA.
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