[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“Do you know how far developed a human brain is at 13 weeks? Do you know how long the brain continues to grow and organize during development? Your assertion assumes things which are not assumable.”

Do you know.....”Can a human body that has suffered severe brain damage sustain an unborn child from a nutritional standpoint? Can her body send the proper nutrients to the unborn child? Can artificial feeding of the brain-dead female suffice to ensure a healthy baby? I do not know and neither does anyone else.”

Also, I do not remember making an ‘assertion’. I remember only asking questions. ;-)

[driftdiver]

Good point, if the woman was brain dead because of the clot I’d say the chances of the baby being alive were pretty slim.

Hopefully the doctors took that into account.

[MHGinTN]

Actually, it appears I know a lot more about the issues than you do and am also aware of the fiddling with terms used to support agendas. Even you are probably aware that there are persons who have been diagnosed as 'braindead' who have awakened to continue their life. And yes, even a severely comatose mother can support the gestation of her unborn ALIVE child so long as the organ systems remain functional in the mother's body. The perception that the diagnosis of either severely comatose and brain dead is perfectly defined to such an extent that mistakes or agendas do not enter into diagnosis is fraught with problems.

The bottom line, in my honest opinion, is that the government is being positioned as the final arbiter for life and death as the obamacare fascism is being erected. There are much larger issues overshadowing the issues penetrated with this story.