Family of dead, pregnant woman is suing Texas for using her body as an incubator.

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302. She is brain dead. Her heart is kept beating because she is getting oxygen from the ventilator

So you can argue that she is alive because her heart is beating, but she has no brain activity (i.e., she's not in a vegetative state, she is brain dead) and if she were taken off the ventilator, which she stated explicitly to her husband and her parents that she would want if she ended up brain dead, she would die pretty quickly. She would have died pretty quickly 6 weeks ago if she weren't pregnant.

Both her and her husband are EMCs, they had discussed this scenario. She didn't want to be kept alive by machines if she were brain dead. They also discussed it with her parents when her brother died. They know what she wanted. However, Texan law says that what a woman wants is irrelevant if she is pregnant. Her wishes, her living wills, her DNRs, all that is put aside if she is pregnant. Because they feel that a fetus is more important than a woman's self-determination and decisions about what happens to her body.