Marlise Munoz, a paramedic from Texas, lost consciousness right before Thanksgiving. Doctors don’t know exactly what happened, but they suspect that a blood clot to her lungs may have cut off her oxygen supply. By the time her husband got her to a hospital, she had gone too long without oxygen. Munoz was pronounced brain dead.
Munoz’s husband, Erick, also works as a paramedic. The couple frequently came into contact with emergency situations, and Munoz tragically lost her own brother several years ago to a serious accident. Erick Munoz says they had several conversation about end-of-life care, and his wife always told him she never wanted to be kept alive by a machine.But thanks to Texas law, Munoz’s husband is not currently able to fulfill her wishes. Munoz was 14 weeks pregnant when she lost consciousness, and that pregnancy is now about 19 weeks along. Texas does not permit life-sustaining procedures to be withheld or withdrawn from a pregnant woman, even if she has a living will that stipulates she doesn’t want to remain on life support, so doctors are keeping Munoz hooked up to a ventilator.
this is the right to life crowd flexing their muscles, does the gov't have the moral right to usurp the rights of Americans in favor of a group of people who have no involvement, they don't share the bill, they don't have to live with the anguish of a love one's desires going unfulfilled by a bunch who want to impose their beliefs on your family.
According to a 2012 report from the Center for Women Policy Studies, Texas is one of 12 states that automatically invalidate women’s end-of-life wishes if she is pregnant.Those state laws ensure that “regardless of the progression of the pregnancy, a woman must remain on life-sustaining treatment until she gives birth.” The hospital that is providing care to Munoz has declined to confirm that she’s been pronounced brain dead,saying only that she’s “pregnant and in serious condition” and their employees are fulfilling their legal obligations. “This is not a difficult decision for us. We are following the law,” a spokesperson told the Associated Press.
Maria Schiavo and more recent Jahi Mcmath, and others the family which evidently has no say and their feelings are not an issue Texas not hard to realize who made those laws. scotus right wing majority who are they to determine whether a unborn baby is more relevant then the parent, then if born they drop it like it's hot potato no health care no welfare or food stamps which is more morally egregious?
