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Adriana Smith's case in Georgia sparks questions on abortion laws and fetal rights

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says she always knew she wanted to have kids. Growing up in a heteronormative family with two sisters and two parents, Day believed she was going to be a mother from the very beginning."I don't think I ever questioned the fact that I would have children," she tells PEOPLE.

Adriana Smith's case in Georgia sparks questions on abortion laws and fetal rights

Day, who grew up attending an all-girls school, explains that she went on birth control when she became sexually active and was on the pill for 14 years before she stopped taking it after getting married to her first husband."I thought, because there is this idea that if you come off the pill, there's this sort of fertility boost sometimes and you can get pregnant at the drop of a hat," Day says. "And so I thought that might happen, but actually it didn't happen at all. And that's when I started exploring whether there was something awry."Day spent two years trying to get pregnant with her ex-husband before she decided to see a doctor, a time period which she calls a "very lonely experience." Ultimately, she was told she had "unexplained infertility."

Adriana Smith's case in Georgia sparks questions on abortion laws and fetal rights

"[It's] a deeply unhelpful diagnosis because there's no explanation, so no one's quite sure how to treat it, so they just throw stuff at a wall and see what sticks," she explains.The doctors also told her she had a bicornuate uterus which, according to

Adriana Smith's case in Georgia sparks questions on abortion laws and fetal rights

, is an irregularly shaped uterus that appears to be heart-shaped and can often cause complications with pregnancy.

However, throughout all her meetings and appointments with "almost exclusively male clinicians," Day just kept feeling frustrated. She shares that she began to realize that women's medicine is "under-explored, underfunded and under-researched."Run by professional scuba diver Cinzia Osele,

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