Democratic leaders in the General Assembly Thursday reiterated a request they made nearly two weeks ago for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to issue a formal legal opinion clarifying the rights of pregnant women under the state’s strict abortion law.
Democrats criticized the Living Infants and Fairness Equality (LIFE) Act, which Gov. Brian Kemp steered through the legislature in 2019, as vague. House Bill 481 prohibits abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, typically about six weeks into pregnancy.
Currently, Adrianna Smith, a pregnant brain-dead woman, is being kept on life support without her family’s consent because of her pregnancy.
Carr says there is nothing in the LIFE Act that requires medical professionals to keep a woman on life support after brain death and that removing life support is not an action “with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy.”
