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Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don’t capture the ethical complexities of such situations.

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Keeping brain-dead pregnant women on life support raises ethical issues that go beyond abortion politics by Lindsey Breitwieser, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin ...

(The Conversation) — Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don’t capture the ethical complexities of such situations.

(THE CONVERSATION) Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had been declared brain-dead in February 2025, spent 16 weeks on life support while doctors worked to keep her body ...