A brain-dead pregnant woman is being kept alive, raising ethical questions

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  Good morning. It's Wednesday, May 21st.

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  I'm Shamita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, big cuts at federal emergency planning agencies as severe storm season arrives,

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  why students in Oklahoma will soon be instructed to look for 2020 election discrepancies,

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  and the NBA's age of chaos.

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  But first, to an issue that abortion rights activists have spent years warning about.

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  Laws that restrict abortion or give legal rights to fetuses

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  can lead to scenarios where the rights of the person

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  who is pregnant get pitted against the fetus they're carrying.

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  We're seeing this play out in Georgia right now,

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  where over the last few months,

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  a hospital has been keeping a brain-dead pregnant woman alive

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  so she can carry her pregnancy to term.

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  Under Georgia law, abortion is banned in most cases after about six weeks of pregnancy.

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  Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old mother and nurse,

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  went to a hospital in February when she was eight weeks pregnant with an intense headache.

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  Her mother told the local NBC affiliate, 11 Alive, what happened next.

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  They gave us a medication, but they didn't do any tests.

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  They didn't do any CT scans.

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