Re: Texas Hospital keeping pregnant dead lady on life support
So you would saddle the widower and his son with the medical expenses associated with keeping his dead wife on life-support, against her stated wishes. Not only that, but you decide that protecting himself and his son against this crippling debt is selfish.
Yeah, usually I'd call a parent wanting to kill his kid for money pretty damn selfish...
if that's even what is going on, but that's the tack you took with your response...
Let's say that WAS the issue, just for the sake of argument - this is a highly unlikely and catastrophic event... it's what we supposedly get insurance
for.
Like I said, however, grief can make people irrational... which means he could come around to being reasonable. Here's hoping.
A fourteen week old fetus went an hour without oxygen. If during a birth a baby goes without oxygen for 3 minutes the results can be severe.
That's true, during birth.
Please state your expertise on what the effects of the mom's condition will be on a kid of that age at the time of the incident, however...
Part of neural development is that we can't make new neurons, which is why brain death is death.
However, when one is still forming one's neurological system... I'll be honest, I don't know. I usually know, but I don't know this one. This isn't a frequent enough occurrence that I ever studied the implications back in school. Since I don't know, I'm holding out hope, though.
Why do you hold these views? You fear that any empathy shown to the living loved ones of this poor women, may contradict your position on abortion. We are not talking about abortion. We are talking about letting a family grieve and get on with their lives by respecting the wishes of the deceased.
Likewise, fine, okay. Perhaps you fear that any concern shown to the unborn kid will contradict your position on that other topic. It's okay, you don't have to want every kid to die...
Or hey, maybe let's just look at this issue on its own merits, whaddayasay?