Any MD here? If the mother is in a coma without ever coming back, does this in any form affect the pregnancy, when the mother’s organism is just kept running?
She’s not in a coma, she’s brain dead. You can get out of a coma, but brain death is when brain function irreversibly stops. The rest of the body is being kept alive by machines but the brain is dead and can’t be revived. In most jurisdictions, this woman is legally dead. As for the pregnancy, I have read other articles that mention the baby will be severely impacted due to this, with several birth defects.
One of the articles I read yesterday mentioned that it’s quite likely the fetus will have health complications, possibly incredibly severe ones, but the doctor they interviewed didn’t make strong direct claims.
So the answer to your question is yes, it does affect the pregnancy, most likely somehow. This news came out fairly recently, so perhaps we will get some more expert opinions over the next week or so.
Not a doctor but I can still guarantee you it’s gonna fuck up that kid. Even assuming they’re perfectly healthy, the mental impacts of learning you were born from basically a corpse will do wonders
Any MD here? If the mother is in a coma without ever coming back, does this in any form affect the pregnancy, when the mother’s organism is just kept running?
She’s not in a coma, she’s brain dead. You can get out of a coma, but brain death is when brain function irreversibly stops. The rest of the body is being kept alive by machines but the brain is dead and can’t be revived. In most jurisdictions, this woman is legally dead. As for the pregnancy, I have read other articles that mention the baby will be severely impacted due to this, with several birth defects.
One of the articles I read yesterday mentioned that it’s quite likely the fetus will have health complications, possibly incredibly severe ones, but the doctor they interviewed didn’t make strong direct claims.
So the answer to your question is yes, it does affect the pregnancy, most likely somehow. This news came out fairly recently, so perhaps we will get some more expert opinions over the next week or so.
Not a doctor but I can still guarantee you it’s gonna fuck up that kid. Even assuming they’re perfectly healthy, the mental impacts of learning you were born from basically a corpse will do wonders