Adriana Smith was almost nine weeks pregnant when she fell ill and was declared medically brain dead. Under Georgia’s strict laws, abortion is banned after about six weeks of pregnancy and Smith was kept alive to carry on the pregnancy, without any regard for what her family wanted and despite doctors noting the chances of her delivering a healthy newborn were very small. The newborn, called Chance, was delivered prematurely in June. As of early December, Chance was still in a hospital Nicu, unable to breathe on his own.