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| Subject: The good: 'A host for a foetus': Brain-dead pregnant woman kept on life support Thu Jan 09, 2014 4:02 am | |
| The diagnosis was crushing and irrevocable. At 33, Marlise Munoz was brain dead after collapsing on her kitchen floor in November from what appeared to be a blood clot in her lungs.
But as her parents and her husband prepared to say their final goodbyes in the intensive care unit at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, and to honour her wish not to be left on life support, they were stunned when a doctor told them the hospital was not going to comply with their instructions.
Munoz was 14 weeks pregnant, the doctor said, and Texas is one of more than two dozen US states that prohibit, with varying degrees of strictness, medical officials from cutting off life support to a pregnant patient.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/a-host-for-a-foetus-braindead-pregnant-woman-kept-on-life-support-20140109-hv7vd.html#ixzz2ptFyORul |
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