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Re: Texas Hospital keeping pregnant dead lady on life support
well im playing catch up and im going to state what i think the facts are please correct me if wrong
woman is brain dead
woman is 20 weeks pregnant (incident happened at 14 weeks)
woman had order to not be on life support
woman is married making her husband legally and medically in control
Texas law prohibits it from following a family/will directive when a pregnancy is involved.
Father also wants to abort because of possible damage to the Fetus
as i could tell, seems those are the facts, please correct me if im wrong
if the above is true the Texas state law violates rights in my simply opinion because it disregards the woman's rights and RvW and puts an extra restriction that is above and beyond RvW.
the womans will/order/wishes should be done AND since the father is alive and married so should his
Now since the unconstitutional law exists it does have to be challenged so thats that. there has to be a court case.
What should happen to this law is what has happened to many other laws, since it goes against RvW it should be removed and struck down, since it wills/individual rights it should also be struck down.
Keeping a woman alive 10 weeks or longer against her wishes, husbands wishes and family wishes is horrible and then during medical procedures on her body afterwords is also horrible.
Having said all that, again though, the law is on the books and currently the hospital is within their legal right. Im glad this is going to court and the law should be struck down.
well im playing catch up and im going to state what i think the facts are please correct me if wrong
woman is brain dead
woman is 20 weeks pregnant (incident happened at 14 weeks)
woman had order to not be on life support
woman is married making her husband legally and medically in control
Texas law prohibits it from following a family/will directive when a pregnancy is involved.
Father also wants to abort because of possible damage to the Fetus
as i could tell, seems those are the facts, please correct me if im wrong
if the above is true the Texas state law violates rights in my simply opinion because it disregards the woman's rights and RvW and puts an extra restriction that is above and beyond RvW.
the womans will/order/wishes should be done AND since the father is alive and married so should his
Now since the unconstitutional law exists it does have to be challenged so thats that. there has to be a court case.
What should happen to this law is what has happened to many other laws, since it goes against RvW it should be removed and struck down, since it wills/individual rights it should also be struck down.
Keeping a woman alive 10 weeks or longer against her wishes, husbands wishes and family wishes is horrible and then during medical procedures on her body afterwords is also horrible.
Having said all that, again though, the law is on the books and currently the hospital is within their legal right. Im glad this is going to court and the law should be struck down.