Brain-dead, pregnant woman, Ireland ruling on Friday declared pregnant woman clinically brain-dead for three weeks will finally be free from life support. The brain-dead, pregnant woman, Ireland issue has created ramps on abortion guidelines in the country.
The family of the brain-dead, pregnant woman, Ireland requested for earlier shutting-off of the life support but the hospital where she was confined refused to do so referring to the country's abortion constitutional law.
The pregnant woman who is in her late 20s fell on Nov. 29 in the hospital where she was having her consultation. She suffered stern head injury and on Dec. 3, she was announced clinically brain-dead when she was 15-weeks pregnant, USA Today reports.
There is no chance for the unborn to emerge alive in a brain-dead, pregnant woman, Ireland higher court found in the examination of the doctors. The court pertains to the condition of the unborn as "nothing but distress and death."
After the brain-dead, pregnant woman, Ireland ruling, the wish of the family to stop the life-support was granted by three judges Justice Marie Baker, Justice Nicholas Kearns, and Justice Caroline Costello.
Prior to the court decision, doctors attending to the pregnant woman declined to remove the life-support in fear that they may be sued with regards to Ireland's abortion laws.
"This unfortunate unborn has suffered the dreadful fate of being in the womb of a mother who has died, and in which the environment is neither safe nor stable, and which is failing at an alarming rate," the three-judge High Dublin Court stated.
The condition of the woman who was 18-month pregnant was already decaying and the doctors had declared there is no chance that the unborn can survive for another two months and to come out alive.
The judges added keeping the deteriorating body functioning only through life supports deprived her dignity of death.
The court received report of the seven doctors examining the brain-dead, pregnant woman that the woman's condition is failing with her brain in rotten stage. She also has open wound in her head and she looked like a different person now, the father of the woman said.
In the Ireland law, it states, "acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect and, as far as practicable by its laws, to defend and vindicate that right."
Ireland has estimated 4,000 abortions since it was legalized in 1967.
The brain-dead, pregnant woman, Ireland ruling has brought consciousness for the amendment of the Ireland constitution regarding abortion and a clear guideline for a case like this.
