{"id":59952,"date":"2025-05-20T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59952"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:22:25","slug":"hospital-tells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59952","title":{"rendered":"Hospital tells."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-406-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-406-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-406-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-406-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-406.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old pregnant nurse, was declared brain dead in February after suffering blood clots in her brain. Though legally dead, she remains on life support over three months later because Georgia\u2019s strict abortion law bans ending a pregnancy once fetal cardiac activity is detected \u2014 which happened at 8 weeks. She is now at 21 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors told her family that removing life support would lead to the fetus\u2019s death, which could be considered abortion under state law. Her mother, April Newkirk, says the situation is heartbreaking: \u201cShe\u2019s breathing through machines, but she\u2019s not there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Pregnant woman declared brain dead is being kept alive due to Georgia\u2019s heartbeat law\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4c-P0ZYSbo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts argue the law doesn\u2019t actually require keeping brain-dead pregnant women alive, but hospitals fear legal consequences. The fetus has been diagnosed with possible severe medical issues, but the hospital plans to keep Adriana on machines until around 32 weeks of gestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case has sparked legal and ethical debates. Advocates say the family should have the right to decide, while lawmakers who support the law say preserving the fetus\u2019s life is the right course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Adriana\u2019s 5-year-old son visits her, unaware of the legal fight surrounding his mother\u2019s condition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59938\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old pregnant nurse, was declared brain dead in February after suffering blood clots in her brain. Though legally dead, she remains on life support&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59958,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59952\/revisions\/59958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}