Posted on 01/27/2014 8:10:12 AM PST by Morgana
Just ... sad.
State-sanctioned murder
As Bart Simpson would say “It sucks”.
The husband says his wife didn’t want to be kept on life support.
Actually......
“Husband FORCED Hospital to Cut Pregnant Woman From Life Support, Killing Her Unborn Child”
There fixed it!!!
You know what????
I’m gonna make a bet right now...Husband cremates the body by end of the week.
Who wants to take up that bet?
Husband cremates the bodies>/i> by the end of the week
The Hospital didn’t fight it very hard
How is that relevant? Tragic situation all the way around.
I thought the same thing.
Would the wife have agreed to be kept on life support long enough to allow her baby to survive? Was that scenario ever part of their discussions? Doubt it.
Problem here is that under state law IF she was really brain-dead, life was not being sustained by this treatment. Instead, a corpse was being artificially stimulated to continue blood circulation, etc.
Let us remember that true brain death is very different from the Schiavo case. When the brain actually dies the body begins to deteriorate regardless of what is done to keep it "alive."
This is a very sad situation, obviously. There is a decent argument to be made that an attempt to keep the body of the dead woman functioning long enough for her baby to be born would be appropriate.
But there needs to be some criteria to determine legal death, and I think most will agree that true brain death is the most logical one.
My (limited) understanding of the issue is that true brain death, once achieved, is not something from which anybody ever gets better. This is quite different from various stages of coma and "persistent vegetative state," from which people awaken all the time.
It is of course possible to misdiagnose brain death, but I don't think conservatives or prolifers should get trapped in a position contrary to medical or scientific knowledge that any beating heart must be kept beating.
Terri Shavio’s husband did the same. Cremation destroys the evidence. This whole situation stinks. His wife is hurt and he does not even want to keep her alive till the baby is born? Plus the fact she was hurt while pregnant? Yea if I were a police inspector I’d be all over this like a cheap suit.
Red flags are up all over the place.
She should have written that down somewhere, then.
Until then, hearsay.
Inadmissible.
the baby/fetus/whatever was already not going to develop. It had brain, limb, and heart development problems.
I think this was just the hospital insider busybodies trying to attack the law at the expense of the family. Even the author of the law said it did not apply here.
nobody disputes her advanced directed to go.
The hospital is just attacking the law. The media is playing games by not telling the full story with all information on the medical situation.
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