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🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | On June 13th, Adriana Smith, who had been declared brain dead back in February, gave birth to a baby |
0:05.2 | boy named Chance. But now some pro-abortion advocates are hoping this baby dies so that they can |
0:11.3 | promote their twisted ideology. In today's episode, we're going to examine this story and the |
0:16.4 | responses to it, including a response from one prominent pro-lifer who did not support these efforts |
0:21.9 | to save Baby Chance's life. To start, here's a new story about the incident back in May before |
0:27.3 | Chance was born. April Newkirk expressed in her GoFundMe appeal that Adriana was declared |
0:32.8 | brain dead on February 19th, her mother writing, due to expecting her unborn child, |
0:39.4 | she will be kept on life support |
0:41.0 | due to heartbeat law in Georgia. |
0:43.5 | But saddened to know we had no say so |
0:45.8 | regarding her lifeless body and unborn child. |
0:48.9 | Georgia's heartbeat law bans abortion |
0:50.9 | after around six weeks of pregnancy. |
0:53.5 | When a heartbeat can first be detected, it was signed into law by Governor Kemp in 2019. |
0:58.0 | There's a lot of misinformation when it comes to this case. |
1:01.0 | First, the Georgia Attorney General's office said this decision had nothing to do with Georgia's ban on abortions. |
1:07.0 | They said, there is nothing in the Life Act that requires medical professionals |
1:11.7 | to keep a woman on life support after brain death. Removing life support is not an action |
1:17.2 | with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy. Second, this seems to be a consequence of older case |
1:22.9 | laws in Georgia. Back in 1987, the Georgia Superior Court ruled in the case of another brain dead |
1:28.5 | pregnant woman, Donna Piazzi, that, quote, based on case law and on Georgia statutes, only the |
1:34.5 | mother has the right to terminate a quickened, non-viable fetus, and that public policy requires |
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