Overview

• Adriana Smith was honored on June 28 at Fairfield Baptist Church in Lithonia, where family, friends and the Atlanta Metropolitan Nursing Honor Guard paid tribute with white roses and a final “call of duty.”
• Her son, Chance, born via emergency C-section on June 13 weighing about 1 pound 13 ounces, remains in the neonatal intensive care unit and is expected to recover.
• Under Georgia’s LIFE Act, doctors were legally required to maintain life support for Smith after she was declared brain-dead at nine weeks pregnant so her fetus could reach viability.
• Democratic State Rep. Park Cannon and allied groups have introduced “Adriana’s Law” to ensure patients retain medical decision-making rights under the state’s abortion restrictions.
• The case has intensified debate over fetal personhood and individual medical consent in Georgia since the post-Roe abortion ban took effect.