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ADRIANA WITH THE SON
“It may be blinded, you may not be able to walk, you may not survive after being born” – and will not have a mother. In the light of US law, all of this is better than turning off the machines to Adriana, causing an abortion.
Adriana Smith It has been in brain death since 8 weeks of pregnancy. Currently, it is already on the 23rd. But your belly continues to grow. And so it should remain until the end of August this year, when doctors of the hospital in the state of Georgia, where they are, plan to make a caesarean section.
“He has his toes, his arms, the members-everything is graduating,” Adriana’s mother, April Newkirk, told the news station. “We’re just cheering for him to survive.”
This is because, doctors explain, the chances of this healthy baby is extremely reduced. The fetus has liquid in the brain, And “it may be blind, it may not be able to walk, may not survive after being born.”
“Let’s love him in the same way,” says Adriana’s mother, who already has another 7-year-old grandson, also son of the American who was diagnosed with blood clots in the brain-within hours, has gone into cerebral death, narrates the
Even with the desire to have the child in his arms, the grandmother admits that The family “had no choice or voice on the subject.”
This is because, according to the US law of this state, an abortion is forbidden after six weeks of pregnancy.
But the case has generated controversy, and Georgia’s Attorney General’s Office, Chris Carr, announced one that declares that Georgia’s six -week law does not require medical professionals to keep women alive With life support after being declared with brain death, as “removing life support is not an action with the aim of interrupting a pregnancy.”
However, there are also opinions in the opposite direction. Georgia state senator Ed Setzler told the “it is completely appropriate for the hospital to do what he can to save the child’s life,” as it is “an innocent human life.”
CAROLINA BASTOS PEREIRA, ZAP //
