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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJPS acknowledges in court documents that Marlise Munoz’s fetus is ‘not viable’
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/01/fort-worth-hospital-acknowledges-pregnant-woman-is-brain-dead.html/Update: JPS acknowledges in court documents that Marlise Munozs fetus is not viable
By Diane Jennings
djennings@dallasnews.com
3:12 pm on January 24, 2014
Update at 3:07 p.m.: About two hours before todays hearing, attorneys representing Erick Munoz and John Peter Smith Hospital filed a joint document in which they agree that at the time of this hearing, the fetus gestating inside Mrs. Munoz is not viable. It is the first time the hospital has acknowledged what Erick Munoz has maintained all along.
Original item posted at 9:51 a.m.: John Peter Smith Hospital acknowledged Thursday that Marlise Munoz, the woman being kept on life support against the wishes of her husband, is brain dead. The acknowledgement came in a court filing late Thursday before a hearing to be held Friday afternoon where a judge is being asked to decide whether she should be removed from life support.
Ms. Munoz met the clinical criteria for brain death on Nov. 28, 2013, the filing states. But the hospital says she did not leave a written directive and withdrawing life support would cause the death of the unborn child.
The Fort Worth hospital again states that its refusal to withdraw support is based on the state law that prohibits the withdrawal of life sustaining treatment for a pregnant woman.
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JPS acknowledges in court documents that Marlise Munoz’s fetus is ‘not viable’ (Original Post)
jsr
Jan 2014
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lunasun
(21,646 posts)1. Ms. Munoz met the clinical criteria for brain death on Nov. 28, 2013,
What fuckers
Nov. 28, 2013,
That is a sicko way to treat someone after declared dead( and their family wishes ) * heartwrenching
jsr
(7,712 posts)2. Judge has ordered that life support be removed and Marlise Muñoz be allowed to die.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)3. Let's hope it happens. Religious pro-lifers are batshit
It's the perfect case you'd expect to find in some dystopian novel.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)4. What you said.
I hope this nightmare for the family ends soon.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)5. Wait..Watch for the bill from John Peter Smith Hospital for hundreds of thousands of dollars. One
would hope they send it right back to them...