LONDON (Reuters) - Ireland's High Court ruled on Friday that a life support machine keeping a brain-dead woman alive could be switched off because her unborn foetus had no chance of survival, a ...

Doctors in Ireland have been granted permission to switch off a life support machine keeping a clinically-dead woman alive because she is pregnant. In a landmark ruling, Dublin's High Court said ...

A pregnant woman who has been pronounced brain-dead is being kept alive against her family's wishes because she is carrying a foetus - essentially being forced to become a human incubator. And the ...

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A pregnant woman who has been declared brain-dead is trapped in a morbid limbo, stuck on life support against her loved ones' pleas, all to serve as a human incubator. The unborn child she's carrying, ...

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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation provides life support for coronavirus patients suffering respiratory failure. After all other conventional treatments have failed, extracorporeal membrane ...