re: #219 wrenchwench

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

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.

Also, the article doesn’t state what led to brain death in those other cases.

We know that in this case, her body was deprived of oxygen long enough to cause brain death. I find it impossible to imagine how a fetus would have survived that to be viable.

But hey, let’s be pedantic for the sake of argument and accuse the other side of being outraged.