A baby boy has been delivered from a brain-dead Georgia woman after nearly four months on life support—kept alive not by hope, but by law.

Adriana Smith, a 31-year-old nurse and mother of a 7-year-old, was declared brain dead on February 19, just eight weeks into her pregnancy. Her family says she suffered blood clots in her brain after initially being treated and discharged from Northside Hospital in Atlanta, according to Scripps.

But when she was pronounced brain dead, doctors at Emory University Hospital reportedly told her family they could not remove life support due to Georgia’s “heartbeat” law. The law, enacted after Roe v. Wade was overturned, bans abortion after cardiac activity is detected—typically around six weeks—and makes no clear exceptions for brain death.

On June 13, baby Chance was delivered via emergency C-section at Emory, weighing 1 pound 13 ounces. He remains in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Smith’s family, who marked what would have been her 31st birthday this past weekend, says they were forced to endure months of heartbreak due to a law that stripped them of the right to make medical decisions for their daughter.

Smith is expected to be removed from life support Tuesday, now that her son has been delivered.