A Georgia woman declared brain dead is being kept on life support because she is pregnant. It raises complicated legal questions about restrictive abortion laws in Georgia and other states.

A case of a brain-dead woman who is over five months pregnant is stoking controversy in Georgia over whether her life support should be pulled. Adriana Smith’s family claims that doctors at Emory University Hospital said they could not turn off Smith’s life support because doing so would end her pregnancy in violation of Georgia’s

Georgia's "heartbeat law" ​is among the restrictive abortion statutes that have been put in place in many conservative states.