Man keeps wife on life support to save unborn child

what are everyone's thoughts on this?

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1395234.htm

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*sigh* Good Luck! The odds that there will be no other problems are not so good. THEN what do u do?

I would feel differently if the pregnancy had been more advanced, but three months is very early. It is at the point in a pregnancy where miscarriages are still very common and where the fetus still has months of development ahead before it is a viable human being. In a setting where cancer has already rendered the mother braindead, it strikes me that there is a very hight risk of complications for the infant. This is going to come out sounding cold and harsh, but the decision to keep the braindead woman "alive" for 3 1/2 more months (after her death) strikes me as being unrealistic, emotional, and dare I say it, self-indulgent. There is a two year old motherless toddler at home. There are a gazillion dollars in uncovered bills mounting daily, and there is a high likelihood that the problems aren't going to stop there.
Although I don't have terribly strong feelings about it, neither do I think this is brave or wonderful.

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Yeah I agree Blucat, I read it and felt so sad. I just hope the child pulls through and they all live on. But mostly I hope the man remarries so that those two kids can have a mother.

Susan Torres was a vaccine researcher at NIH here in the Washington D.C. area. Her family's plight has been well publicized here and a fund has been set up to help defray the mounting medical costs. If you are interested in learning more, they have a website: www.susantorresfund.org.

The doctor who was interviewed was from Yale, but the Torres family lives in Alexandria VA, a suburb of Washington.