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Pregnant woman, gestation about 20 weeks collapses from blood clot to lung that causes cardiac arrest, producing brain damage determined to be brain death.
Texas law and law of 31 other states prohibits terminating mother’s life because fetus has right to live.
Imagine that? Parents of the mother argue that she would want to die. No word in the news reports on the opinion of the husband.
Continue reading What is This Thing Called a Fetus?
Tag: right to die
More on Brain Death and Persistent Vegetative State/Coma
Follow up on the short discussion of the Jahi case and the longer one on Terri Schiavo.
Guidance for Neurologists on how to determine brain death
http://surgery.med.miami.edu/laora/clinical-operations/brain-death-diagnosis
Discussion from the National Inst of Neurological Disorders on characteristics of Coma and Persistent Vegetative State (PVS).
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/coma/coma.htm