In Georgia, a pregnant woman who’s been declared brain dead has been kept on life support for three months, against the wishes of her distraught family, because of the state’s abortion ban. Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old mother and nurse, has been legally dead since February following a medical emergency. But doctors have kept her on breathing machines because her fetus, just 9 weeks old at the time of Smith’s medical emergency, was old enough to have detectable cardiac activity. Adriana Smith’s mother said, “It’s torture for me. I see my daughter breathing, but she’s not there.”