re: Texas keeps dead body as fetus incubator against family's wishes.

Thank you for bringing a little medical reality to the ridiculous OP.

Like you said, there is no decaying when the lungs are being ventilated and the heart is beating.

She was receiving tissue perfusion just as anyone reading this is at this moment.

Muscle atrophy would be occurring just as it occurs with paraplegics and quads. That's not decay. Paralyzed people are not decaying. They are experiencing the opposite of weight lifting.

Without giving an opinion of the legal and moral issues here, the OP is just dumb from a medical standpoint.

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So you are good with the pro-abortion movement when they try to paint it as "pro-choice"?

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rob, the irony is your stated views on abortion, and my personal views are very similar. So either you are trolling these threads, or you are not being honest in descriptions of your personal views.

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Unless the doctors horribly misdiagnosed these patients they are dead & it is grotesque that fetus obssessed whackjobs think it is okay to maintain a corpse to harvest a fetus(against the mother , husband & family's wishes).

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I think you do an incredible injustice to the moral and ethical decisions people sometimes unfortunately have to make when you use this kind of rhetoric.

There are certainly no winners in this scenario (as you want to imply) and it seems to be a situation that brings out the worst in people like you.

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It absolutely does bring out the worst in me when people want to perform ghoulish Frankenstein type experiments to save a fetus (an abnormal one at that).

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No.

Posts that bring out your bigoted, racist, regionalist side bring out much worse in you.
Is it your worst?
Who knows.

But it's plenty bad.

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dead body fetus incubato

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sounds like a band.

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The fetus is a human life.

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Yes but viability applies. She was only 14 weeks along.

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Instead of letting the fetus die, a doctor can try to keep it alive.

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That's a big try from 14 weeks. There are multiple reasons for a miscarriage to take place. Fetus or mothers condition being a couple. I cannot imagine a deceased woman being a good environment for fetal development.

If she were 30 weeks gestation then by all means do what you can for a while. To give the fetus more time. But at 14 weeks to many IMPORTANT milestones of fetal development to reach.

This case was a disaster. And a lot of people let emotion, opinion, and politics take over a subject that really needed little discussion. Especially after an abnormal ultrasound. People here that I think and they think this baby if going to have something like a clubfoot or a heart murmur. But these were PROFOUND abnormalities and at that young of a gestational age it would be ghoulish to keep the fetus to delivery. at that point keeping that fetus alive is EQUAL to keeping an 85 year old with a massive head bleed alive. It can be done, but it doesn't mean you should just because we can.

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LSU alum wannabe

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I understand that with this scenario the right decision was to pull the plug. i stated that earlier. My later comments were only to asurob because he was being a hack again. No worries

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My wife has a DNR and has told me countless times to not let anyone plug her into any machines.

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You and your wife are dumb. My wife and I have an understanding of what each wants in the way of "rescue" type stuff. We both also understand the difference in "don't plug me into any machines" and reversible vs. non-reversible problems/illnesses.