Overview

• The service at Fairfield Baptist Church featured a tribute by the Atlanta Metropolitan Nursing Honor Guard and mourners carrying white roses.
• Adriana Smith, 31, a nurse and mother to an older son, was declared brain-dead in February at nine weeks pregnant and kept alive under Georgia’s six-week abortion ban.
• Her son Chance was delivered via emergency cesarean on June 13 at 1 pound, 13 ounces and remains in Emory University Hospital’s NICU with doctors saying he is expected to recover.
• Doctors removed Smith from life support days after Chance’s birth, and her family laid her to rest on June 28.
• Smith’s mother described the prolonged support as “torture,” saying it was agonizing to see her daughter ventilated without consciousness.