Not necessarily.
Barbie Blodgett and Her BabyOn June 30, 1988, near Yakima, Washington, the car that 24-year old Barbie Blodgett was riding in was struck by a drunk driver. Three months pregnant at the time, she slipped into a persistent coma, and experts believed that she would never regain consciousness, because her cerebrum, the large part of the brain which controls consciousness and voluntary functions, was simply not working at all. She was unable to speak or eat and was fed through a stomach tube.[9]
Other experts predicted grimly that the baby she was carrying would die and/or would worsen her condition to the point of death.
However, her pro-life family maintained hope and continued to pray. And on December 9, 1988, 8-pound Simon Alan Blodgett was born perfectly healthy. Dr. Thomas Benedetti, director of perinatal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, stated that this was the fourth instance known of a comatose woman giving birth.[9]
The day after the baby was born, Barbara Blodgett recognized her son, Simon, and began to regain consciousness. A month later, she could communicate and feed her newborn. A year later, she was still partially paralyzed and had to communicate via a computer keyboard. But she said that she "hoped to walk and talk before Simon does," and seemed ready to achieve the goals she had set for herself.
"Not necessarily."
I'll go ahead and point out a HUGE difference in the two cases. Barbie Blodgett didn't have cancer. The story points out that doctors are merely crossing their fingers that the cancer won't get to the uterus before 25 weeks.
Was wondering -- in the Blodgett case, was she on a respirator like the woman in this case? The story you linked just says she was in a "persistant coma" & on a feeding tube.
Lots of people live for years in comas without respirators, was wondering if Barbie was one of them?
Am no medical expert, but would think chances of both baby (and, maybe, eventually, of mother) would be better if she was not on a ventilator.