The blAAtschApen wrote:So, has there been an issue about a clinically brain dead woman being pregnant?
Based on German news from 1992, which seems like long ago, but it is actually closer to the founding date of NS than today is.
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13679986.htmlHer other bodily functions were kept alive for a while, because of pregnancy.
We don't have an issue like that (I also don't think it's too long ago -- I wrote an issue based around the first IVF baby reaching majority; IRL that would've been about 1996). It's worth being aware of "
Still Life" (which asks about keeping a woman alive in a persistent vegetative state, but
sans foetus).
There are several really interesting possible angles here, it seems. Co-opting a woman's body and maintaining artificial life -- for five months, in the original case -- for the sole purpose of giving birth to a foetus with only a 50-50 chance of survival, for example.
In one case mentiomned in the article, the father wanted the foetus' mother's body maintained, while her parents wanted life-support turning off. While this is very similar to Still Life, maybe there's an argument that the mother did not plan to keep the foetus and that co-opting her body would be against her known wishes?
Another angle could look at the nature of the experiment itself. Some critics, including one psychologist, was concerned that the foetus would have problems caused not by feeling his mother's movements, and accused the clinic of "ruthlessly experimenting" with the foetus' future, especially considering the early gestation period.
I'm not sure I personally find it priceless (different sense of humour, I think), but still... The concept's written in the article I think. The sale was pulled due to eBay's policy of not permitting anyone to sell things that seek to profit on human suffering or tragedy.
Surely that suggests an angle?