[net-gold] MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: BRAIN DEATH : LAW: CASE: DECISIONS : UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS : UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM : WAR ON WOMEN: Texas Judge: Remove Brain-Dead Woman from Ventilator, Other Machines
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:06:51 -0500 (EST)
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MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: BRAIN DEATH :
LAW: CASE: DECISIONS :
UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS:
UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
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WAR ON WOMEN:
Texas Judge: Remove Brain-Dead Woman from Ventilator, Other Machines
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Texas Judge: Remove Brain-Dead Woman from Ventilator, Other Machines
By Greg Botelho
CNN
updated 5:41 PM EST, Friday January 24, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/24/health/pregnant-brain-dead-woman-texas/
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(CNN) -- A Texas judge ordered a hospital on Friday to remove a pregnant
and brain-dead woman from respirators and ventilators by 5 p.m. Monday.
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The hospital can appeal the decision.
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On Friday, John Peter Smith Hospital acknowledged for the first time that
Marlise Munoz, who is being kept on a respirator under Texas law, has been
brain dead since November 28 and that the "fetus gestating inside Mrs.
Munoz is not viable," according to court documents released before a
Friday hearing.
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The woman's husband has repeatedly made these claims in his efforts to
have her removed from the machines so the family can bury her.
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Erick Munoz contends doctors told him his wife "had lost all activity in
her brain stem" and an accompanying chart stated that she was "brain
dead." He has further called her "nothing more than an empty shell" who
should be left to rest in peace.
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The overarching, complicated issue of whether the pregnant woman should be
kept on a ventilator, as prescribed by Texas law, has been the subject of
debate.
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The wrenching story started with a pregnant woman found unconscious on her
kitchen floor. In the more than eight weeks since then, lying supine in a
hospital bed, the 33-year-old became the focus of an intense, emotional
debate about who is alive, who is dead, and how the presence of a fetus
possibly changes the equation.
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Hospital spokesman J.R. Labbe said last month that doctors are simply
trying to obey a Texas law that says "you cannot withhold or withdraw
life-sustaining treatment for a pregnant patient."
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But to Munoz's husband, Erick, she is not a patient because she is not
alive. He and other family members say the hospital should abide by her
wishes -- which weren't written down but, they say, relayed verbally to
them -- and not have machines keep her organs and blood running.
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Mom of pregnant woman on life support: Change the law
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In an affidavit filed Thursday in court, Erick Munoz said little to him
now is recognizable about Marlise. Her bones crack when her stiff limbs
move. Her usual scent has been replaced by the "smell of death." And her
once lively eyes have become "soulless."
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"Over these past two months, nothing about my wife indicates she is
alive," Erick Munoz said. "... What sits in front of me is a deteriorating
body."
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Husband: 'Obscene mutilation of a deceased body'
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It should have been a happy time for Marlise and Erick Munoz, two trained
paramedics awaiting the arrival of their second child.
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Then everything came crashing down around 2 a.m. on November 26, when she
was rushed to the north-central Texas hospital.
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Once there, Erick Munoz said, he was told his wife "was for all purposes
brain dead." The family also says the fetus may have been deprived of
oxygen.
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Lawyers: Records back claim that woman is brain dead
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