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Georgia brain-dead mom kept alive under abortion law, gives birth via C-section (www.independent.co.uk)

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Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, tells 11Alive that Chance, a baby boy, was born prematurely last week by emergency cesarean section. The infant weighs about 1 pound 13 ounces and is in the NICU.

Smith has been kept medically alive since February 19, when she was declared brain dead at eight weeks pregnant due to blood clots in her brain. Her family says doctors kept her on life support due to Georgia’s abortion law, the LIFE Act, which doesn’t clearly address cases of brain death, but causes confusion in medical environments. News of her condition made national headlines as she was kept on life-support while pregnant, and her family railed against the decision.

“I’m not saying we would have chosen to terminate her pregnancy. But I’m saying we should have had a choice,” she told 11Alive in a previous interview.

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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has stated that the heartbeat law does not explicitly mandate life support for brain‑dead women, calling the situation legally unclear.

Knowing how this situation should legally play out is your fucking job! Christ, it’s a miracle there are any doctors left there.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 17 hours ago

He can't. The law was written and passed. The interpretation of said law is not on the attorney general. It's on judges in the court system. The law is in a gray area because the AG isn't the one who wrote it, and no high court has had to interpret it for this situation.

As shit as Georgia is, and this law is, it still isn't the AG's fault that it's in a gray area.