Hospital keeps brain-dead woman alive to save unborn baby, citing Georgia law

Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. / Credit: Harrison Keely, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, May 16, 2025 / 10:39 am (CNA). A Georgia hospital is requiring that a pregnant woman who was declared brain dead more than 90 days ago remain on life support until the birth of her unborn child. In February, doctors declared 30-year-old Adriana Smith, a nurse who was nine weeks pregnant, brain dead after discovering multiple blood clots in her brain. According to…