It’s not about the supposed cruelty of life support for Adriana Smith or the chance of survival for her newborn son, Chance. What opponents resent most is what the situation implies for their own lives.

In fact, the lower the chance of survival for Chance, the more optimistic abortion advocates are. Smith, 30 years old at the time, was declared brain-dead in February after suffering the effects of blood clots in her brain. She was pregnant, so she was kept on life support until the baby reached a healthier gestational age. The Georgia laws keeping her alive became an object of ire for members of the pro-abortion camp, most of whom claimed that Smith was a functional “incubator,” and that the process was obviously against what she would have wished.