• zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    Any MD here? If the mother is in a coma without ever coming back, does this in any form affect the pregnancy, when the mother’s organism is just kept running?

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      Not a doctor but I can still guarantee you it’s gonna fuck up that kid. Even assuming they’re perfectly healthy, the mental impacts of learning you were born from basically a corpse will do wonders

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      She’s not in a coma, she’s brain dead. You can get out of a coma, but brain death is when brain function irreversibly stops. The rest of the body is being kept alive by machines but the brain is dead and can’t be revived. In most jurisdictions, this woman is legally dead. As for the pregnancy, I have read other articles that mention the baby will be severely impacted due to this, with several birth defects.