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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/should-patient-who-pregnant-and-brain-dead-receive-life-support-despite-objection-her-appointed/2020-12

Analysis of similar situation in Nevada in 2020 that discusses the moral and legal ethics, and pretty strongly supports the wishes of the family in this case, plus consent/implied consent and objectification of the woman's body. [/quote]

Even if the ethical consult allows it, the legal consult may have a different view - these laws also vary locally. In the end, doctors do not want to be prosecuted or deal with litigation and have to follow legal protocol.

Various states have laws that can override a woman's advance directive if she is pregnant, so this is not just GA. In GA, the law includes a 2007 advance directive that may not apply if pregnant with a potentially viable fetus. Couple that with GA law declaring a fetus a "person" and abortion as withdrawal of care while the mother is already dead (so cannot be done to save her when she is already gone), but fetus still medically viable (sounds like that is on a downhill trajectory but perhaps not sufficiently at "threshold" yet). [/quote]

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