A hospital is using a breathing tube and other measures to keep a brain-dead Georgia woman's body functioning because she is ...

Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old mother and nurse, was declared brain-dead — meaning she is legally dead — in February.

Medicaid pays for nearly half of all births in Georgia. It covers 1.4 million children and 556,000 adults in the state.

"This decision should've been left to us," said the mother of a woman who is pregnant and has been brain dead for over 90 consecutive days.