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On June 13th, Adrianna Smith, who had been declared brain dead back in February, gave birth to a baby boy named Chance.

And now some pro-abortion advocates are hoping this baby dies so that they can promote their twisted ideology.

There's a lot of misinformation when it comes to this case.

First, the Georgia Attorney General's Office said this decision had nothing to do with Georgia's ban on abortions.

There is nothing in the Life Act that requires medical professionals to keep a woman on life support after brain death.

Removing life support is not an action with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy.

Second, this seems to be a consequence of older case laws in Georgia.

Back in 1987, the Georgia Superior Court ruled in the case of another brain dead pregnant woman, Donna Piazzi, that, quote, Based on case law and on Georgia statutes, only the mother has the right to terminate a quickened, non-viable fetus and that public policy requires the maintenance of life support systems for a brain dead mother as long as there exists a reasonable possibility that the fetus may develop and survive.

In 2007, Georgia passed the Advance Directive for Healthcare Act, which standardized how people could say what medical care they do or don't want if they're incapacitated.

The form said that unless a woman positively indicates she does not want to be on life support while pregnant then the state will presume that she should be kept alive for the benefit of her child.

And there is no evidence Smith had an advance directive saying she wanted to be taken off of life support if she were pregnant.

Third, I'm assuming for the sake of the argument that Smith was truly dead.

Many Catholic bioethicists are skeptical of brain death diagnoses being equivalent to a true diagnosis of death, as can be seen in a recent symposium held on the subject by the National Catholic Bioethics Center, but I'll just assume for the sake of the argument Smith was biologically dead and all that remained was Smith's body.

Fourth, many people are claiming Smith's family tried to remove her life support, but hospital officials, backed by state authorities, refused to do so.

But the family has only said in interviews that they wished they had the choice to do this, not that they were actually going to do it.

And I'm not saying that we woulda chose to terminate her pregnancy.

What I'm saying is we shoulda had a choice.

And in fact, in other interviews, they said that they wanted this baby to live.

So at that point, we continued with the pregnancy that we didn't have a choice or a say about.

And, a- and- and I just wanna be clear on something.

We want her to have her baby.

We want her life to continue throughout her children.

But at the same time, to see her lay there like that for that length of time, the grieving process for us, it can't even start.

They named her daughter's baby Chance.

'Cause to me he's getting a second chance.

So let's look at the situation.

Adrianna Smith is dead.

Her rights as a human person cannot be violated.

Smith's family wants her baby to live.

The hospital wants the baby to live, and that is what has happened.

So no one's rights or requests are being violated in this case.