Ethicist Art Caplan discusses a case in which a brain-dead pregnant woman was kept alive amid abortion restrictions.

For months, Adriana Smith was kept alive while brain-dead and pregnant due to Georgia’s heartbeat law. Doctors kept her on life support until she ultimately delivered her son by an emergency Cesarean ...

A pregnant woman in Georgia was declared brain-dead after a medical emergency and doctors have kept her on life support for three months so far to allow enough time for the baby to be born and comply ...

The drama now playing out in Texas over whether to keep a brain dead pregnant woman alive on life support is grimly similar to a case decided in a crowded Decatur courtroom in August 2010. The drama ...

ATLANTA — A new life is still fighting after a beginning no one would have imagined. April Newkirk's daughter, Adriana Smith, was pronounced brain dead earlier this year. She was kept alive on life ...

In October 2021, 36-year-old Anthony “TJ” Hoover II was rushed to Baptist Health Richmond in Kentucky after a drug overdose. He went into cardiac arrest, and doctors found no reflexes or brain ...

Doctors followed the standard steps after a patient’s death: they notified Hoover’s family and prepared him—an organ donor ...