the key point in your apples and oranges comment is that THIS case involved a woman who was around 10 weeks pregnant.... a critical time of baby development.
Doesn’t matter what you or I think. this case is over
Just a sad case all around.
Like the family said after the ruling, “We didn’t win anything here.”
“the key point in your apples and oranges comment is that THIS case involved a woman who was around 10 weeks pregnant.... a critical time of baby development.
Doesn’t matter what you or I think. this case is over”
What you are missing here is the baby is now 22 weeks old, not 10 weeks. What should have happened back then as opposed to what should happen now is a different subject. And the analogy isn’t apples and oranges, as the baby is now close to viable, and the track record from German studies is that many of these babies pull through. Which leaves me back to my initial comment, how truly deformed or non viable is the baby in reality?
As the baby would be adopted out if viable, than the husband should not have an objection to waiting a few more weeks. Then, if a viable baby is delivered, his wife will be allowed to die. A matter of a few weeks’ wait doesn’t make it or break it for the husband and his family. It’s not like he has to wait a lifetime for his wife’s physical death to take place. I’d err on the side of potential baby viability, over speeding up the wife’s physical death over only a 3 week wait.
“Doesn’t matter what you or I think. this case is over”
Not if appealed. It may or may not be, but if so, that changes the equation.
The Link from my post 72 is about a baby born to a brain dead mother who was 15 weeks pregnant at time of brain death. Her baby was born at 27 weeks and developed normally.
Were the tests to determine if the baby has abnormalities done , or not done?
If they were not done, why are they saying they were done?
This is what's so odd about this case.
Why do the facts keep changing?
The basic question is: Does this baby have rights as a human being seperate from his/her mother?
Does he/she deserve the right to live?
What tests have been done on the baby?
Where are they?
It's when the facts keep changing that I start suspecting sone people posting have more than what may, or may not be best for mother and child as their primary concern.