A Georgia woman who was declared brain-dead in February has had her baby delivered via emergency cesarean section, 11 Alive reported.

Adriana Smith has been kept alive on life support for three months after succumbing to brain clots earlier in the year. April Newkirk, Smith’s mother, said the baby, Chance, was born prematurely on June 13 weighing 1 pound 13 ounces and is in the newborn intensive care unit.

Smith, 31, was to be taken off life support on Tuesday. Hospital staff told Smith’s family they could not remove their daughter’s life support because of the state’s six-week abortion ban.

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