A 31-year-old woman named Adriana Smith Welcome his child early on Friday (June 13) morning. But she probably won’t get the chance to keep her mini-me. Smith is brain dead and has been on life support since February. Staff from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, helped with the child’s delivery. Her mother, April Newkirkconfirmed the update to WXIA TV.
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Newkirk said her granddaughter was born early by an acute caesarean section. Adriana was about six months into her pregnancy. The child, named ChanceWeighs about 1 pounds and 13 ounces and is on the newborn intensive care.
“He is expected to be okay,” Newkirk told the TV station WXIA TV. “He just fights. We just want prayers for him.”
Newkirk said her daughter had intense headaches more than four months ago. She visited Atlanta’s Northside Hospital, where she received medication and released. The next morning, her boyfriend woke up to her giggling for air and called 911. Emory University Hospital decided that she had blood clots in her brain and explained her brain death on February 19. At that time she was eight weeks pregnant.
Associated Press called and emailed Emory on Tuesday for comments. It is unclear why the Atlanta Hospital decided to deliver the child.
The woman’s mother responds to drawing life support plugs
Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, said that Emory University Hospital will remove her life support on Tuesday (June 17). “It’s a bit difficult, you know,” April reportedly said in tears. “It’s hard to process,” she added and wished her daughter had more time, per 11alive. Adriana’s loved ones and advocates gathered this past weekend to celebrate her 31 birthday, which will mark her last. Newkirk did not speak at the event.
“I’m her mother … I shouldn’t bury my daughter. My daughter should bury me,” Newkirk said.
With his daughter’s condition and planned death, April will include the caregiver role for his grandchildren. She said she is trying to keep it together for them. Adriana also had a 7-year-old son and worked as a nurse at Emory. If I could say one thing to her, I guess I would say that I love her and that she was a big daughter, ” Said Newkirk.
Adriana Smith’s condition put a spotlight on the right of abortion against Georgia
Smith’s family said that Emory University Hospital physician told them that they were not allowed to remove the units that keep her breathing. This is because Georgia’s law (House Bill 481) prohibits abortion after cardiac activity can be detected, which is generally about six weeks during pregnancy. Again, Smith was eight weeks pregnant when her health took a turn.
Georgia’s Republican national lawyer Chris Carr talked about the controversial method in May. In his statement, Carr said that the Life Act did not require a doctor to keep a woman declared the brain death on life support. “Removing life support is not an act” with the purpose of ending a pregnancy, “” Said Carr.
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Associated Press personnel contributed to this report via AP Newsroom.
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