<p>We have no reason to believe the post from “HoodRat” is genuine. I’m not saying Jahi is in good shape-- after all, she’s been dead for over a month. But giving credence to a comment on a random blog makes no sense. Anyone could have posted it.</p>
<p>I just read that part of this “settlement” or whatever you would call it, was that they had to return Jahi’s body to the coroner when her heart stopped beating. </p>
<p>I’ve ran the gamut of feelings with this case, but I think bottom line the mom thinks she isn’t dead until her heart stops beating, so though she’s been given all the information, counseling, etc in the world, to her, Jahi is alive even if she knows she’s “terminal” or won’t ever wake up or recover.</p>
<p>The hospital should have ended it within whatever the time period is to take off a ventilator and that judge should have never allowed this.</p>
<p>Interesting update in the Texas case [Pregnant</a>, Brain-Dead Woman’s Husband Sues Hospital - ABC News](<a href=“http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pregnant-brain-dead-womans-husband-sues-hospital-21528221]Pregnant”>http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pregnant-brain-dead-womans-husband-sues-hospital-21528221)</p>
<p>[Jahi</a> McMath is a living person](<a href=“Jahi McMath is a living person”>Jahi McMath is a living person)</p>
<p>Hot off the press from Dr. Byrne</p>
<p>The Texas case is an interesting. I really don’t understand why the father doesn’t want to give this wanted child every chance to survive. His wife isn’t endangered in any way. She is brain dead. What difference does a few more weeks on a ventilator make? Nothing to the mother. Minimal inconvenience to the husband/father. Everything to the baby.</p>
<p>He knows that his wife wouldn’t want to be hooked up to a ventilator after death. Also, he doesn’t know how long she was without oxygen before she was found. No one knows that or the condition of the fetus due to that oxygen deprivation.</p>
<p>I couldn’t get through this whole video. The lady at the NY facility compares Jahi to war veterans with brain injuries. Sorry- not the same. [Founder</a> of New Beginnings Allyson Scerri’s Fox News Interview - YouTube](<a href=“Founder of New Beginnings Allyson Scerri's Fox News Interview - YouTube”>Founder of New Beginnings Allyson Scerri's Fox News Interview - YouTube)</p>
<p>I don’t understand why the next of kin in the sad case of the Texas woman isn’t allowed to make the decision about his dead wife. This is a heck of an experiment using a dead woman as an incubator, and the fetus was presumably also deprived of oxygen when the mother died. I can understand the husband not agreeing to that experiment, and I don’t know why the state of Texas is doing it without his consent.</p>
<p>CF - He would be making the decision to kill the baby. That’s why. That’s not his call. Not saying I agree, but that’s the state’s rationale on this one. They don’t feel it’s his decision.</p>
<p>Fetus is not a baby.</p>
<p>The linked article says that in similar cases where the child has been followed for a few years, the child has been fine. Ironic that while Jahis mother is trying futilely to keep her child’s body alive, this father doesn’t want to give his child a chance. You’d think he’d want something potentially good to come out of this tragedy.</p>
<p>If you read carefully, not every fetus resulted in a “viable child” (their words, not mine). Nor do the have the data for about 1/3 of the cases.</p>
<p>The state of Texas, where I live, is completely in the wrong on this case. She made her wishes known and her husband tried to carry them out. I’m completely disgusted by this case.</p>
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<p>There was no baby! There was a dead woman who had been 14 weeks pregnant. Her husband was entitled to make medical decisions for her.</p>
<p>Flossy, did you take a look at any of the other articles on the website where Byrne posted? Total wacko stuff. There are so many nuts in this world, it scares me sometimes.</p>
<p>She made her wishes known</p>
<p>We do not know if she made her wishes known in the case of when she was pregnant. Many of us have said that we don’t want extensive life support measures to keep us alive. </p>
<p>However…VERY FEW of us would likely have ever said (prior to this publicized issue), “Hey, even if I’m pregnant, pull the plug.”</p>
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<p>She is not alive. She is dead. She died two months ago. There can be no life support to keep her alive, because she is dead.</p>
<p>It’s irrelevant what you and I individually would do, mom2collegekids. It’s what she wanted that is relevant. Her wishes were quite clear that she wished not to be sustained like this. It’s ridiculous that because she was pg, her wishes suddenly have no value. I would expect my H to do his utmost to carry out my wishes. </p>
<p>And Tatin, have you not read the case? This baby is likely going to be severely disabled. And the man has to deal with that. Where is the state of TX going to be then? Are they going to provide care? Hardly.</p>
<p>Frankly this is even more of a travesty than the Jahi case. The state deciding that a grown woman’s wishes that would be normally be carried out are invalidated because she’s pregnant? Seriously?</p>
<p>Would you really want to see your dead wife “breathing” for months on end? </p>
<p>I know it would destroy my father- both physically and emotionally. It would absolutely destroy him. </p>
<p>Anyone who would put a family through that despite the wishes of the dead person, the spouse, AND the parents is just cruel IMO. </p>
<p>This is not “just” about the fetus or the dead woman. This is about the father who now has to, at the very least, raise one healthy baby that NEEDS his father, and needs him now. This is about the parents that just want the chance to carry out their daughter’s wishes.</p>
<p>I think it’s a little strange to say “VERY FEW” (would agree to pull the plug if pg). I think that’s your wishful thinking, but I bet there are a lot more women than you’d like who would say they wouldn’t want to be kept sustained just to maintain a pregnancy.</p>