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Jordan Collins

‘May she finally rest in peace’: Brain-dead woman’s life support switched off after baby was born via emergency C-section

The life support for Adriana Smith, the woman whose body has been kept alive despite being brain-dead, has now been switched off after the child she was pregnant with was delivered by emergency C-section.

Smith’s story caused a wave of outrage across the U.S. and the rest of the world when it was first brought to the public’s attention. But now it’s over as the child that she was pregnant with prior to her death was born, albeit incredibly premature. Despite the circumstances the baby is expected to be OK according to Smith’s mother, April Newkirk.

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