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I hadn't heard of it, no. It certainly does raise a lot of tough-to-answer questions. A quick Google search tells me that this woman's story became quite a rallying point for pro-life groups. What's the backstory on the husband that makes him such a bad guy?
it's just me--i've seen him on tv, and he's all about the kid, and how the wife would have wanted this--it skeeves me out, altho i understand that at least something could come out of it. I don't like treating her as a baby factory when she would otherwise be dead. It's without her consent, and inhuman, i think.
It is a bit disturbing to think of a braindead woman being used as an incubator. As a woman, it doesn't exactly feel like a positive thing. On the other hand I can't see anything that indicates that she would not have wanted the baby to live. It seems to be an incredibly complex and emotional situation on all sides. Of course, I haven't seen the guy talking and am not familiar with the details of the situation.
WRT that particular news story.... as with all of that stuff, I really just feel like I cannot judge. As a woman, I feel that if I wanted kids, then if I were pregnant then in a coma, I would want my husband to have them. But we just don't know what she wanted. I just have to withhold judgement.
On the brain-dead mom story, it's totally creepy, but only because of the backstory weirdness. If I personally were in the same situation, I definitely would want to be kept alive only to incubate the baby, if that's what my husband wanted.
Nothing too crazy about that, really... On the other hand, I never, ever would want the condition to be used in some kind of twisted religious propaganda thing, and would definitely come back to seriously haunt anyone who tried to present it that way.
On a completely unrelated story, this came up big and green and after reading it, I learned that one of our major hollywood stars wants to be a fluff. So thanks for that, amber!
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