Texas man wants pregnant wife off life support despite state laws

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Let’s attack the logic.
Not the person.
I could care less. Some people are simply rude and obnoxious; others have personality defects. I actually feel sorry for such people.

As far as logic goes, he hasn’t presented any to attack…just baseless ad hominem statements that are contrary to Church teaching.
 
This baby was 15 weeks now maybe you consider one week to be a great difference but I don’t.
Differences are not measured in absolutes but are relative. As an example that applies to this case, the difference between 14 and 15 weeks is an infinite order of magnitude greater than the difference between 28 and 36 weeks, that latter of which is much larger in absolute terms. Why? A normally developing child with a BD mother has an excellent chance of survival regardless of whether the child is 28 weeks or 36 weeks. However, in the case of the former. We are dealing with an extraordinary low chance; one human being in the entire history of mankind in one case, versus no such case in the other. It is more probable that the mother will rise from the dead, the mother will be assumed into heaven, or that the Red Sea will part.
So your 0% is not true and your statement that there is no evidence is also untrue.
There is no recorded case of a 14-week-old child (or earlier) surviving with BD mother…none. That statement is 100%, indisputably true, until proven otherwise. And we are not even considering the amount of trauma the child received. It is also indisputable true that extraordinary means are not required in this case.
 
Differences are not measured in absolutes but are relative. As an example that applies to this case, the difference between 14 and 15 weeks is an infinite order of magnitude greater than the difference between 28 and 36 weeks, that latter of which is much larger in absolute terms. Why? A normally developing child with a BD mother has an excellent chance of survival regardless of whether the child is 28 weeks or 36 weeks. However, in the case of the former. We are dealing with an extraordinary low chance; one human being in the entire history of mankind in one case, versus no such case in the other. It is more probable that the mother will rise from the dead, the mother will be assumed into heaven, or that the Red Sea will part.
There have been others that have survived at 15 week. The weeks at which a baby born premature has dropped over time. A baby who has survived at 15 weeks in a mothers body may one day be 14 weeks. No a child hasn’t survived at this time but that doesn’t mean that a child won’t. This child survived until 21 weeks. The child died not because he was 14 weeks at the time of his mother’s death but because there were complications. There isn’t one answer that fits all.
There is not evidence that a fetus can survive 2 months off of a decaying corpse.
You were wrong about this statement.
 
I could care less. Some people are simply rude and obnoxious; others have personality defects. I actually feel sorry for such people.

As far as logic goes, he hasn’t presented any to attack…just baseless ad hominem statements that are contrary to Church teaching.
Then why bother answering especially an answer that is also rude and obnoxious. You mention Catholic teaching but you have misrepresented what the Church teaches.
 
The child died not because he was 14 weeks at the time of his mother’s death but because there were complications.
This is not true. There has never been at child that has survived at 14 weeks, so that is a most relevant factor. The complications just compounded the problem, in the sense that it appears everyone (except possibly certain people on this forum) felt that it was ridiculous to put the mother on support given the totality of the circumstances.
You were wrong about this statement.
I’m just reiterating what the family members of the mother have stated. If you believe the statement is wrong, then your issue is with those that were with and observed the body, not me.
 
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