{"id":331636,"date":"2025-05-20T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=331636"},"modified":"2025-05-22T02:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:16:45","slug":"second-chance-family-brain-dead-baby-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/second-chance-family-brain-dead-baby-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Second Chance’: Family of pregnant mom declared brain-dead wants baby boy to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The family of Adriana Smith, the pregnant Georgia woman declared brain dead<\/a> and kept on life support to allow her preborn baby a chance to live, has now named<\/em> her son \u2014 and expressed their hope that he will survive<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, spoke with 11Alive<\/a>, announcing that the family has chosen a name for Smith’s baby boy: Chance<\/em>.\u00a0“Because to me, he’s getting a second chance,” Newkirk said.<\/p>\n

KEY TAKEAWAYS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • Contrary to how the media and pro-abortion activists have portrayed the feelings of Smith’s family, it appears they have never expressed certainty about removing Smith and her baby from life support.<\/li>\n
  • Though media blames Georgia’s LIFE Act for keeping Smith on life support, the Attorney General’s office says the LIFE Act is irrelevant here, as removal of life support is not an abortion.<\/li>\n
  • The family named the baby, wants him to survive, and says they will “love” and “embrace” him.<\/li>\n
  • The family said the prognosis for the baby is more positive than the last time they met with doctors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    THE DETAILS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Pro-abortion mainstream media and activists have exploited Smith’s story, portraying it as if 1) her family wanted her off of life support, and 2) that keeping her on life support was the fault of Georgia’s LIFE Act. As it turns out, these were both false narratives. Live Action News previously noted<\/a> that the Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care Act of 2007<\/strong> was the likely reason Smith has been kept on life support; under that law, a pregnant woman cannot be withdrawn from life support unless her preborn child is not yet considered viable, and<\/em> she has an advance directive in place requesting to be removed from life support. Smith had no advance directive in place.<\/p>\n

    Now, the Georgia Attorney General’s office has released a statement<\/a> confirming that the pro-life law isn’t relevant in this case, writing, “There is nothing in the LIFE Act that requires medical professionals to keep a woman on life support after brain death,” adding, “Removing life support is not an action with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy.”<\/p>\n

    Newkirk said the family originally inquired if aborting Smith’s baby boy would have given Smith a better chance of recovery. They were told that it would not. “She’s not there,” her mother said. “But the baby’s there.”<\/p>\n