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\n Adriana Smith is a patient at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta. Emergency complications early in her pregnancy led to brain death, but she remains on life support as the pregnancy continues, according to her family. Her case has become a symbol of the medical and ethical issues stemming from a Georgia law that bans most abortions and confers fetal “personhood” rights.
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By the time she ended up at a Georgia hospital with emergency complications, 30-year-old Atlanta nurse Adriana Smith was almost nine weeks<\/a> pregnant.<\/p>\n

Her condition, which included multiple blood clots, deteriorated as doctors tried to save her life, Smith’s mother April Newkirk told<\/a> Atlanta TV station WXIA.<\/p>\n

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“They did a CT scan and she had blood clots all in her head. So they had asked me if they could do a procedure to relieve them, and I said yes,” Newkirk said. “And then they called me back and said that they couldn’t do it.”<\/p>\n

She said doctors declared Smith ‘brain dead’ and put her on life support without consulting her.<\/p>\n

“It’s torture for me,” Newkirk said. “I come here and I see my daughter breathing by the ventilator, but she’s not there.”<\/p>\n