ATLANTA (WXIA) – A 30-year-old mother and nurse was declared brain dead months ago, but she is still being kept alive because she’s pregnant. Now, her family has questions about Georgia’s heartbeat law and why they didn’t have a say in her care.
Adriana Smith, a registered nurse at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, was about 9 weeks pregnant when she started having bad headaches in February. The 30-year-old went to Northside Hospital for help but was released after being given medication, according to her mother, April Newkirk.
“They gave her some medication, but they didn’t do any tests, didn’t do any CT scans. If they did, they would have caught it,” Newkirk said.
The next morning, Smith’s boyfriend noticed something was terribly wrong…