At fourteen weeks pregnant, Marlise Munoz was found lying on the kitchen floor unconscious in the middle of the night by her husband, Erick. The hospital informed him that she was brain dead. It has been seven weeks since and the hospital has kept her alive in hopes that she will still deliver the baby. Her family doesn't want her to remain on life support, but it would be against the Texas Advance Directives Act to take her off. It will be interesting to see what happens with this case, and if the baby will be delivered and healthy.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-brain-dead-mother-fetus-survival-munoz-20140114,0,1320584.story#axzz2qQVirqa8
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