Pregnant, brain-dead Texas woman forced to carry “distinctly abnormal" fetus to term

[Ryantology]

Newsflash: Texas continues to suck sloppy sphincters.

FORT WORTH — Attorneys for the family of a pregnant Haltom City woman who has been on life support at John Peter Smith Hospital for eight weeks issued a statement late Wednesday that the fetus is “distinctly abnormal.”

The 22-week-old fetus’s lower extremities are deformed and it is impossible to determine its gender, the attorneys for the woman’s husband, Erick Muñoz, said in an emailed statement.

“The fetus suffers from hydrocephalus [water on the brain]. It also appears that there are further abnormalities, including a possible heart problem, that cannot be specifically determined due to the immobile nature of Mrs. Muñoz’s deceased body,” the statement said.

The fetus, which was deprived of oxygen for “an indeterminate length of time, is gestating within a dead and deteriorating body as the horrified family looks on,” the attorneys said.

Marlise Muñoz, 33, was 14 weeks pregnant when she collapsed Nov. 26. She was taken to JPS, where doctors told her husband that she was brain-dead. He and other relatives asked that life support be removed.

JPS officials refused, citing a state law requiring that a pregnant woman remain on life support until the fetus is viable, usually at 24 to 26 weeks.

So yeah, the state of Texas is forcing this woman to remain alive, against the explicit wishes of her family, just so she can deliver a baby that has been damaged beyond any hope of it having anything resembling a normal life, assuming it even survives delivery.

This is the sort of monstrous, inhumane shit you get when your state is deep red.