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A 30-year-old woman was found unresponsive after days of complaining about headaches. She’s rushed to the nearest hospital, ...
It’s true that Georgia lawmakers probably weren’t thinking of women like Adriana Smith when they passed their abortion ban. Smith, a nurse and mother, was pregnant with her second child when she began ...
In February, Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old Georgia nurse and mother, was nine weeks pregnant when she was taken to Emory University Hospital with severe head pains. A CT scan showed blood clots in her ...
Nearly half of Georgia’s counties are reproductive care deserts, all while looming Medicaid cuts threaten to worsen access to care. Adriana Smith was a mother, daughter, and nurse who deserved a ...
A pregnant woman being kept alive after brain death because of Georgia’s strict abortion law raises legal and ethical questions about medical consent, experts said.
Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old nurse and mother, was declared brain dead at nine weeks pregnant. Georgia’s abortion law has ...
Doctors said they could not turn off life support because it would end Adriana Smith's pregnancy in violation of Georgia law, ...
As Adriana Smith stays on life support at Emory University, here's an update on her baby, the controversy, and the GoFundMe helping her family.
The Georgia attorney general’s office released a statement clarifying that the state’s heartbeat law does not require a brain ...
Nurse and mother Adriana Smith is brain dead, but because she's pregnant, doctors in Georgia are keeping her on life support. (Video: Amber Ferguson/The Washington Post) Smith first sought ...
Adriana Smith’s case has drawn national attention and comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale after she was declared brain-dead in ...
Georgia's heartbeat law does not explicitly address Adriana Smith's situation, but allows abortion to preserve the life or physical health of the pregnant woman.