Attorneys Confirm The Brain Dead Texas Woman’s Fetus Suffers From Severe Abnormalities

[mickeym]

The lawyers representing Marlise Munoz’s family members, who are suing the Texas hospital that refuses to remove the brain dead women from life support, have released a statement confirming that Munoz’s fetus is “distinctly abnormal

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[kate_mct]

Why do they insist on putting the family through this? Why? Even the people who wrote the law said that it doesn't apply in this situation.

[nextdrinksonme]

Oh my god. Now will they let the poor woman 'die', already, or will they force this child to be born and both it and the family continue to suffer? All this family wants is to give their loved ones peace. Ugh. This continues to break my heart and terrify me every time I read more about it.

[grapesheezy]

This all sounds like a horrific nightmare to be honest.

[nicosian]

Oh my gods. Just let this woman GO. Its barbaric. Her family is suffering. There's no good outcome here.

And the state better pay every last dime of the hospital bill. Let the hospital bill the state since they were insistent on enforcing this ghoulishness.

[darth_eldritch]

And they better pay for the therapy the family needs for going through this ordeal, too.

[nicosian]

yes, that too.

Better yet, change the damn law to something sane and reasonable, and admit women are not just meat-sack incubators.

[darth_eldritch]

Seriously.

This shit would have never happened in the first place if it weren't for the rabid fetus fetishers and misogynists in general.

[rhysande]

I'm sure the hospital will expect to be paid at the end of it.

[hermionemalfoy]

I wonder -- what would happen if they just refused to pay the bill? Maybe it's my privilege/lack of imagination speaking, but I can't imagine the hospital would like the kind of publicity that sending bill collectors to the family would bring. (Also, I'm inspired by the McLibel case where the defendants refused to pay McD's at the end and McD's was so overwhelmed by the bad press that they never sent anyone to collect the money.)

[rhysande]

I'm assume the Munoz family has insurance (both were paramedics) that will pay most of the bills, but there will still be deductibles for 2013 and 2014, co-payments, and whatever exceeded the lifetime cap before the new ACA rules eliminating caps kicked in. If Munoz refuses to pay his portion of the bill the hospital might forgive it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they pressed for collection. I don't get the impression the hospital believes it will suffer due to bad press, or they wouldn't be trying to apply a law meant to assure living, pregnant women aren't removed from life-sustaining equipment to a woman who is considered dead under Texas law.

8 weeks in ICU on life sustaining equipment, the bills must be well over $1,000,000 by now and it's going to keep climbing. The quality of life of the living is being sacrificed on the altars of fetus worship, rigid narrow-mindedness, and greed.