Adriana Smith was a 30-year-old mother and nurse, two months pregnant when she went to an Atlanta emergency room with intense headaches.
She was given medication and sent home, but the next day after being rushed back to the hospital with blood clots in her brain, Adriana was pronounced brain-dead. Her family wanted to say goodbye and let her go peacefully, but the hospital was forced to refuse because of Georgia’s horrific, Republican-led abortion ban.
Instead, against her family’s wishes, Adriana was kept on life support for months. Her family was put through hell while she was treated like nothing more than a human incubator.
Across the world, countries are expanding access to abortion and recognizing that reproductive health care is a basic human right. Without the ability to decide whether to continue a pregnancy, a person cannot fully exercise their rights to life, health, autonomy, privacy, equality or freedom from discrimination and cruel treatment.
U.S. snubs nose at human rights review