The thing is all those things are developed before the 14 weeks of her gestation. So all those things should have been known before the incident that took her life. They would not be a result of the incident.
Did she know this ahead of time? And chose to keep the pregnancy?? These are the questions that bother me.
Many amazing children are born without limbs. The Brain issues are a different matter but I wonder how severe it is?
I am not in the medical field, but somebody mentioned this syndrome in the other thread. It sounds as is this is a possibility that could have occurred after her aneurysm and could explain abnormal growth after the incident.
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I can only say what I would want. I'd rather my baby be with me.
A deformed baby to be raised by someone else, well I'd just prefer it with me.
They do not know the sex of the baby. That sounds like a major defect to me.
The last report I read was one given after she had been placed in her husbands care. The family and husband said there would be no autopsy. They dont need one. Her cause of death is blood clot probably blocking vital part . Ultra sound should show it.I know it was in lung.
I feel they did the right thing. They answered her wishes. :seeya:
I can only say what I would want. I'd rather my baby be with me.
A deformed baby to be raised by someone else, well I'd just prefer it with me.
They do not know the sex of the baby. That sounds like a major defect to me.
The last report I read was one given after she had been placed in her husbands care. The family and husband said there would be no autopsy. They dont need one. Her cause of death is blood clot probably blocking vital part . Ultra sound should show it.I know it was in lung.
I feel they did the right thing. They answered her wishes. :seeya:
Baby was female.
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Damn! This is so tragic.
My heart bleeds, both for Marlise and Nicole. I hate to sound this way but I have no sympathy for Erick. You want to name this baby now? The same baby that you fought so hard against? Idk, maybe I'm just unfeeling and cold. But don't try to gain sympathy now for a baby you so obviously never wanted. MOO. . .this was about him and his wishes, never about Marlise and her's.
It is MOO that once you are dead, you are dead, and that your spirit is no longer attached to your body. So, IMHO Marlise never gave a fawk what happened to her body. That hang up is left to us living. Just for the record. . hambirg doesn't give a rat's *advertiser censored* what happens to her body. . .just don't cremate me. I had a BAAAD dream as a teenager and I don't want to be cremated, otherwise, IDGAF!
I do agree with the decision, though there is nothing here to celebrate, IMO. Marlise, the families, & the fetus should have put into this position to begin with. When Marlise died at the end of November she should have been allowed to go with dignity, and unborn Nicole with her. Just because medical science *can* do something doesn't it mean it *should* do something; in this case using an artificially animated corpse as an incubator for a non-viable fetus. I find this concept horrifying, grotesque, macabre--I run out of adjectives when I try to describe it.
And it doesn't help the general public's understanding that brain death *is* death when you have two different hospitals engaged in litigation over diametrically opposed actions involving a brain dead person's body being artificially sustained on a ventilator. And it also doesn't help when the dramatic terms 'life support' or 'life sustaining treatment' are used for the process of pushing air into the lungs of a dead person to force the heart to continue beating.
Life *is* precious, the more so because it is so fragile and so easily lost, but IMO it is nothing but arrogance to think we can (or should) always argue with nature.
Fetus never reached an age of potentially becoming viable. Fetus was not incubated with an idea that it was never going to become viable.
Viability is reached at 24 weeks. Fetus was at 22 weeks and 5 days. And I personally don't have any problem whatsoever with "incubating" a fetus. A number of children were saved that way. Mother is dead and doesn't suffer.
Fetus, on the other hand, doesn't have to die.
And mother's organs still can be donated after the delivery. I don't see why fetus has to die just because some might think its grotesque.
A mother stays on life support for several months, delivers an infant, and organs are donated.
What exactly is wrong with that? I think it's great that we are so advanced in medical science that we can actually do that.
BBM.
Because a woman is not an incubator. She is a human being and she (and her body) should be treated with dignity and respect. If a pregnant woman dies when the fetus is not viable; her body should not be abused in such a despicable and callous manner. I don't think the so-called "pro-life" movement understands how much this case has horrified the average person. And that it has clearly revealed the depths of inhumanity these laws have sprung from.
I hope MM's family sues the hospital for every penny it's worth.
Viable means able to live outside the womb. Viability is reached at 24 weeks (on average). Until then, every fetus is nonviable. This fetus was at 22 and a half weeks. Nearly every fetus would still be unviable at that gestation period. The fact that the fetus was nonviable at 22 and a half weeks doesn't say anything about its future viability.I feel sorry for anyone that thinks the husband is not acting in the best interests of his unborn child. A nonviable fetus is not capable of living once it is delivered.
BBM.
Because a woman is not an incubator. She is a human being and she (and her body) should be treated with dignity and respect. If a pregnant woman dies when the fetus is not viable; her body should not be abused in such a despicable and callous manner. I don't think the so-called "pro-life" movement understands how much this case has horrified the average person. And that it has clearly revealed the depths of inhumanity these laws have sprung from.
I hope MM's family sues the hospital for every penny it's worth.