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Recognizing that Adriana Smith and her family's prolonged ordeal without their consent is the direct result of the Black maternal health crisis, the danger of laws that give rights to fetuses and take them away from pregnant people, and anti-abortion laws that continue to harm people who can become pregnant.

Sponsored By: Representative Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5]

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Summary

Protecting pregnant people's autonomy is the resolution's central aim. It would highlight Adriana Smith's case and condemn laws that grant fetuses rights while restricting pregnant people's medical decision making.

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  • Families: Names Adriana Smith's family and cites her brain death at 9 weeks' gestation and the possibility her body could be kept on life support until about 32 weeks as an example of harm.
  • Pregnant people, especially Black women: Calls out that Black women experience maternal mortality at more than three times the rate of White women and that their pain and medical concerns are often undertreated.
  • State governments: Urges states to repeal laws that ban or criminalize abortion, undo rules that block advance directives during pregnancy, and clarify fetal-rights laws so medical care prioritizes the pregnant patient's health and well-being.
  • Health care and clinicians: Argues vague anti-abortion and fetal-rights laws chill medically necessary care and create legal confusion, citing mixed statements about Georgia's LIFE Act and the risk of prosecution.

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Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5]

GA • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Jacobs, Sara [D-CA-51]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 6/17/2025

  • Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]

    MA • D

    Sponsored 6/17/2025

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