#brain-death

#brain-death

Emory Health declared the 30-year-old Smith brain dead on February 19. She had gone to a different hospital one day earlier, complaining of severe headaches, but was sent home with painkillers and without any testing. But her boyfriend rushed her to Emory after he woke up in the middle of the night to find her gasping for air, where a CT scan revealed multiple blood clots, and she was declared brain dead.

"He's expected to be okay. He's just fighting. We just want prayers for him." - April Newkirk on baby Chance.

"Let me be plain: this is a grotesque distortion of medical ethics and human decency. That any law in Georgia could be interpreted to require a brain-dead woman's body to be artificially maintained as a fetal incubator is not only medically unsound, it is inhumane."