Marlis Munoz Kept Alive

In the Case of Marlise Munoz she was a woman who was declared as brain dead. She was kept alive by machines, because she was pregnant. Yet unlike some other people it was against her stipulation prior to her accident that she did not want to kept alive artificially in case as brain dead.
Marlise Munoz was found on her kitchen floor by her husband. She was pregnant with her second child when this took place. Her husband “Erick Munoz” had to be having a feeling of disbelief, when he saw his wife laid out on their kitchen floor. Marlise was making her son a bottle before she passed out and she was there for an hour. She was then rushed to John Peter Smith in Fort Worth, Texas. On Thanksgiving Day, Marlise Munoz was considered brain dead. Yet she was kept alive by the doctors via ventilator because she was pregnant. …show more content…
The Texas Advance Directives Act states, “A doctor may not withdraw or withhold life sustaining treatment form a pregnant patient.” Even though the Munoz’s didn’t want her to be kept alive. The doctors didn’t have a choice but to because of legal acquisitions. The hospital will keep her on the ventilator until her 14-week-old fetus was delivered or dead. Which the hospital was being protected from liability as it kept the pregnant patient on life support.
Just like all other things this was brought to the media attention. The media blew it up. They began looking into the Texas Advance Directives Act. They also began to interviewing the authors. The media was covering the story 24/7. The Munoz family soon gained protesters. Which was there at the court house of the day of the