But despite this being commonly discussed, scientists haven’t really studied it. Liz Chrastil, an associate professor of neurobiology and behavior at the UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of ...

Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don’t capture the ...

A pregnant brain-dead woman in Georgia was kept on life support until her fetus was viable. Experts say it raises ethical and legal questions.

Brain-dead Georgia mother Adriana Smith to have public funeral after being kept on life support due to pregnancy.

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Researchers suggest that hormones produced during pregnancy, such as testosterone and estrogen, may have significantly ...

Newkirk speaks out after her daughter, Adriana Smith, was declared brain dead but kept on life support to continue her ...

Adriana Smith’s story has highlighted the impact of Georgia’s restrictive abortion laws. Her premature newborn remains in the ...

Fetal personhood’ law explained as brain dead pregnant woman, Adriana Smith, her 1lb baby delivered by doctors after being ...

National concern was raise over whether the baby of a Georgia mother, declared brain dead, would survive. But he is alive and ...

Smith was declared brain dead on February 19, when she was eight weeks pregnant. Newkirk said doctors told the family they were required to keep Smith on life support under the state's abortion law, ...