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Brain-dead pregnant woman's case spurs questions about medical consent

A pregnant woman declared brain-dead months ago is being kept on life support in Georgia until her baby can be delivered — a decision doctors made to obey the state's strict abortion ban, according to her family. The case raises questions about medical consent since the fall of Roe v. Wade, how to balance the legal status of the fetus and its mother, and the limits of medical care.