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(I like the touch of "pregnant people", as though this were not a direct attack on WOMEN)
Louisiana Wants to Fight Families Over Keeping Pregnant People (WOMEN) on Life Support
The country watched earlier this year as a tragedy unfolded publicly for the Munoz family in Texas. Eric, a father and husband, watched as his wife and the mother of his young toddler suffered a medical catastrophe, was rushed to the hospital and declared brain dead, then saw the hospital fight to keep her on life support despite her own and her familys wishes that she not have her body kept functioning artificially. At the center of the debate was a fetus, just out of the first trimester, that the hospital had declared was a life that had to be protected and kept growing inside this womans body, despite being declared officially dead, in the hopes that the hospital could keep it gestating until it was far enough along to deliver.
The battle pitted hospital against family, politicians against doctors, and even reverberated into the Texas Republican primaries where would you have kept Marlize on life support became the code phrase for proving how pro-life and babies-above-all a candidate was on the political spectrum. For the Munoz family, the ordeal ended when a judge ruled Marlizes body could be removed from life support and she could be laid to rest. Now, however, the repercussions of that fight is beginning to be felt in other states.
Louisiana has been bold in its legislative attempts to remake the state. A bill that has already passed the house could close almost all abortion clinics in the state, and lawmakers are spending their political time and capital on arguments like whether the King James Bible should be the official state book.
Now, they are entering the fray on taking away the familys ability to make end of life decisions. In an attempt to address exactly the type of situation that occurred in Texas, the Louisiana legislature is reviewing a bill to make it illegal for hospitals to remove a pregnant person (WOMAN) from life support, even if that is the express wish of the pregnant person (WOMAN) and family.
We have a responsibility to that unborn child, to give that unborn child a chance, said Rep. Austin Badon, who is sponsoring the bill, which has already made it through committee and will be moving to the full house for a vote. Another lawmaker, Rep. Jay Morris, agreed, according to the Associated Press, stating that while concerns for the mother were understandable, We need to look at the child. (yes, because concern for the mother is soooooo unimportant)
Although the bill is set explicitly to take away the rights of the families when it comes to making medical end of life decisions about pregnant people (WOMEN), the bill also denotes the slippery slope that lawmakers are prepared to go down when it comes to end of life care for all people. After all, if its a legislative bodys prerogative to veto family preference in a situation with a technically dead person and an unborn fetus, what is to stop them from next refusing to allow a patient who is alive but unable to function or recover from being removed from life support, since that is also a life deserving of every chance in the eyes of many politicians?
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/louisiana-wants-to-fight-families-over-keeping-pregnant-people-on-life-support.html#ixzz30CGoF5j6
MountainLaurel
(10,271 posts)I was stunned to realize how many men around me saw absolutely no problem with using a dead woman as a human incubator against her and her family's wishes. Sending several notes to my legislators letting them know that if they vote for this travesty I will fight tooth and nail for the election of their opponents.
niyad
(113,323 posts)woman-hating insanity.
MountainLaurel
(10,271 posts)I know some folks locally who spoke to him about the bill, and for him it's all about saving the baybees. Not the woman's wishes, the family's wishes, the question of who pays (in a state with one of the highest rates of uninsured in the nation that rejected ACA), the birth defects that will arise from a fetus being grown in a corpse. Just saving babies.
niyad
(113,323 posts)sponsored this piece of insanity makes it even more disgusting.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)niyad
(113,323 posts)mouth is, sign a form of financial responsibility for the woman and the fetus/child from conception til graduation from college. otherwise STFU