“the hospital and the Munoz family agreed on crucial facts listed in a court document: that Marlise Munoz, 33, has “met the clinical criteria for brain death since November 28” and that “the fetus gestating inside Mrs. Munoz is not viable.””
This is what the judge used today to order the removal of ventilators and respirators from this woman
Not viable only means the child can’t live outside the womb-yet. Doesn’t really say what the status of the child is/will be. There may be medical problems with the child- or not. None of the info released really tells us- and I certainly would not trust any statements from the father’s attorney.
““the hospital and the Munoz family agreed on crucial facts listed in a court document: that Marlise Munoz, 33, has “met the clinical criteria for brain death since November 28” and that “the fetus gestating inside Mrs. Munoz is not viable.””
This is what the judge used today to order the removal of ventilators and respirators from this woman”
However:
Not much is known about fetal survival when mothers suffer brain death during pregnancy. German doctors who searched for such cases found 30 of them in nearly 30 years, according to an article published in the journal BMC Medicine in 2010.
Those mothers were further along in pregnancy - 22 weeks on average - when brain death occurred than in the Texas case. Birth results were available for 19 cases. In 12, a viable child was born. Follow-up results were available for six, all of whom developed normally.