Just when it seems the state of Texas couldn’t be any more cruel in its treatment of women, it forces a dead woman to incubate a fetus. This is in spite of the wishes of the woman, clearly expressed during her life, as well as the wishes of both her husband and her parents.
Already dead, but put on life support anyway.
Marlise Munoz collapsed on her kitchen floor shortly after Thanksgiving and died, apparently from a pulmonary embolism. Her husband, Erick, found her not breathing and with no pulse. Her brain may not have had oxygen for up to an hour.Erick performed CPR and called an ambulance. After Marlise was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital, in Ft. Worth, her heart was artificially restarted with electric shocks and drugs. She was put on life-support because she was 14 weeks pregnant and, at that point, a fetal heartbeat could be detected. However, her brain showed no activity and she was legally dead.Marlise and Erick were both paramedics and agreed together, in no uncertain terms, that they never wanted to be kept alive artificially. They had seen the bad outcomes of such cases too often in their work. But when the family requested that Marlise be taken off of life support, the hospital refused because of the pregnancy.
don't you think this is that proverbial "too far", how bizarre can they be, what about the kid when it gets old enough to understand the circumstances of their birth, are they setting a precedence that further totally disrespects women and their family's last wishes is anything sacred, that's not republican oriented?
Ernest Machado, Marlise’s father, said, “That poor fetus had the same lack of oxygen, the same electric shocks, the same chemicals that got her heart going again. For all we know, it’s in the same condition that Marlise is in.”Nevertheless, the hospital insisted that Texas law prohibits them from disconnecting a pregnant woman from life support. The law overrides a woman’s own choices about the end of her life.Never mind that, at 14 weeks, the pregnancy could have been legally terminated by abortion. Never mind that the family wanted to peacefully release Marlise, who was already dead. Never mind that Erick already had a living child, now 15 months old, to care for and support. As a single parent trying to cope with his grief, he’s being forced to split his time between his son and his wife’s hospital room.According to the New York Times, the 1989 Texas law states that a person may not withdraw or withhold ‘life-sustaining’ treatment from a pregnant patient. Medical ethicists think the hospital is misinterpreting state law. Thomas Mayo, an expert on biomedical ethics with the Southern Methodist University law school, told the NYT, “If she is dead, I don’t see how she can be a patient.”
did the Texas God tell them to do this, ae they working within the laws of moral humanity, are are they just being rightwing zealots that have no limit when it comes to their desire to promote life, but that is false if they cared about life why are the killing with SYG laws why are they taking food stamps from those same babies, denying employment extensions why do they exist they are the pimple on the penis of life.
ghoulish behavior to prove a point that you want that birth but not that life is self contradicting, if you support one you have to support the other or you are perpetrating fraud and abusing your position. keep gov't out of your life huh guess they meant Progressive gov't because theirs is sure all up in yours.
