In the early hours of June 13, a baby was born to a brain-dead woman in Atlanta. That woman, Adriana Smith, had suffered a catastrophic stroke in February, in the early weeks of her pregnancy. When the baby, Chance, was born via C-section, he weighed less than two pounds. Last week, doctors at Emory University Hospital, where Smith was initially declared brain-dead, turned off the machines that had been sustaining her organs—and finally returned her body to the care of her family.
