re: #202 sattv4u2

The woman was clearly brain dead. Dead. No signs of life.

The fetus was never viable under those conditions. Ever

Ummm,,,,no

In a survey of international medical literature from 1982 to 2010, the German researchers found 19 cases of brain-dead women who were put on life support for the purpose of sustaining the fetus. Twelve viable infants were born and survived the neonatal period, the study said

Read more here: star-telegram.com

You know why that’s irrelevant? It’s right in the article:

Before she was stricken, Muoz and her husband had agreed that they did not want to be kept on life support if something ever happened to them.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/01/23/5509465/very-few-medical-precedents-in.html#storylink=cpy

The woman’s advance directive should not be overruled by anyone on the basis of her pregnancy, against the wishes of her family.

There weren’t many details about those other cases in that article, but I bet you can’t find an example where a woman was kept alive 100 days so she could deliver, against her family’s wishes and her own advance directive.