Saturday, October 1, 2011
Saving a Fetus
A woman in the 20th week of pregnancy suffers a cardiac arrest and is taken to the emergency room. Despite efforts to revive her, she dies. Some in the hospital staff want to keep her on life support long enough for the fetus to become viable and remove it. The baby’s father is unknown, and she has no other family members that would step forward to take care of the baby. Is it permissible for the hospital to keep her on life support?
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Yes we do believe that it is permissible for the hospital to keep the mother on life support so that the fetus can mature and become viable to remove. Because it is the hospitals duty to try and preserve life as best as possible and the child can become a ward of the state and given a family considering there is no relatives to claim the child.
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