A case of a brain-dead woman who is over five months pregnant is stoking controversy in Georgia over whether her life support should be pulled. Adriana Smith’s family claims that doctors at Emory University Hospital said they could not turn off Smith’s life support because doing so would end her pregnancy in violation of Georgia's heartbeat law,

Atlanta women’s health providers and abortion-rights advocates are speaking out against Georgia's six-week abortion law as an Emory University Hospital patient recently declared "brain dead" remains on life support to sustain her pregnancy.

Georgia's "heartbeat law" ​is among the restrictive abortion statutes that have been put in place in many conservative states.