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Emory told TMZ that Lewis died Wednesday morning from Stage 4 breast cancer while in hospice care at her Los Angeles home.

"California was willing to resist," said John Acevedo, an associate dean at Emory Law School, who studies free speech and protests in the US.

Emory Healthcare, her provider, is keeping her on life support because of her pregnancy and its fears that they might run afoul of the “natural person” law.

The attorney general opened a familiar playbook to deal with the blowback: He argued that Emory Healthcare wouldn’t get in trouble if they took Smith off life support because that wouldn’t count as an abortion.

If rights begin at fertilization, and if rights are honored with criminal punishment against anyone seen to harm the fetus, then why wouldn’t Emory Healthcare get in trouble?