Jennifer Conti

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Adriana Smith was declared brain dead on Feb. 19. But that doesn’t mean the 30-year-old nurse and mother was allowed to die with dignity. According to Smith’s mother, the Atlanta hospital where she’s been treated has been keeping her daughter on a ventilator without considering her family’s wishes because of Georgia’s restrictive anti-abortion law. Smith was nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead; the health of her fetus is uncertain.