A tragic case that moved through the Atlantic. A girl, whose mother, Adriana Smith, a brain death American, remained alive in the United States due to an anti -abortion law, was born a few days ago, the elected authorities announced on Wednesday, June 18.
“On Friday, June 13, 2025, his son, called Chance, was born prematurely around 4:41 (local time, 10:41 am Paris time) by emergency caesarean section,” three Democratic parliamentarians mobilized on the issue of women’s rights. According to his instructions, the child was born very premature.
“I should get out of that,” said Adriana Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, on the newborn, to the 1st 1 Alive local channel. “He fights. (…) He continues to pray for him,” she calls.
The mother, Adriana Smith, had to be disconnected shortly after, added to the chosen Democrats. “It’s hard to digest,” said the child’s grandmother. Adriana Smith’s family celebrated her 31st birthday last Sunday, with several support associations.
“Every woman must have the right to make her decision”
Adriana Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, had denounced the lack of choice that had imposed on her family after a total and irremediable arrest of the brain in her nine -week pregnant daughter and already mother of a 7 -year -old boy. He had experienced a serious health problem, since several blood clots were discovered in his brain, after an apparent medical error.
According to the family, the hospital would have decided to keep it artificially alive to allow pregnancy to continue to comply with a law on the denounced abortion of Georgia, the state of the southeast of the United States, where the case takes place.
Therefore, the young woman remained under respiratory assistance for four months, without the family having a word to say, according to her mother.
“Each woman must have the right to make her own decision,” said April Newkirk, to the local American channel 11Alive. “And if this is not the case, their partner or their parents.”
Local elected officials favorable to his life.
The Attorney General of the Republican of Georgia, Chris Carr, declared that the law did not require health professionals who keep alive a woman declared in a brain state. The arrest of machines that are artificially alive a patient does not intervene “to interrupt a pregnancy,” he said, according to Associated Press.
“I think it is quite suitable for the hospital to do what can save the child’s life,” said Georgia Republican Senator Ed Setzler.
“This is an unusual circumstance, but I think it highlights the value of an innocent human life. I think the hospital acts properly,” he added.
On the hospital side, a spokesman for the Emory Health Clinic said that the “safety and well -being” of patients remain their main priorities.
Declines in the right to abortion in the United States
History caused a shock wave in the United States, such as the three years of the reversal of the Supreme Court for the right to abortion.
On June 24, 2022, the highest American legal body, most conservatives, canceled the trial of Roe V. Wade, which guaranteed US law since 1973, a federal right to abort, restoring states with all the freedom to legislate in the field.
Since then, more than 20 out of 50 states have prohibited or strictly forbidden access to abortion. In Georgia, the law in question prohibits abortion from the moment when cardiac activity is detected in the fetus.
If in principle it does not apply to this case, the legal vagueness created and the fear of legal actions could have pushed the medical team to act in this way.
“The absence of a formal legal opinion or legal procedures of directive leaves families and doctors in uncertainty,” the three elected officials, Nikema Williams, Ayanna Pressley and Sara Jacobs, who presented a resolution on Tuesday.
Source: BFM TV
