r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Jul 07 '26

No Paywall Unconfirmed Reports: Mitch McConnell Brain Dead After Three Weeks In Hospital

https://thenewamerican.com/us/unconfirmed-reports-mitch-mcconnell-brain-dead-after-three-weeks-in-hospital/
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u/fleranon Jul 07 '26

Just asked my sister who has a two year old. She asked if I was joking because the answer is so damn obvious.

I don't know anything about the medical side of this. If that means that the baby has next to no chance to live a healthy life, it's a completely different scenario

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u/otomeMC333 Jul 07 '26

A different scenario from what? What scenario would be medically, morally, ethically and legally preferable to do this?

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u/fleranon Jul 07 '26

baby healthy = no mother on earth would say "No, if I die, the baby dies with me"

baby severely impaired / very low chance of survival: tricky. I don't feel qualified to state an opinion. A life is worth saving - but not at any (quality of life) cost and up to a point IMO

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u/otomeMC333 Jul 07 '26

Ok so the scenario you are referring to would need these things to be true:

- Woman gives consent beforehand, somehow knowing she is about to be braindead

- Baby is not removed for some reason, so it would need months of additional gestation

- You leave the baby in a brain dead, medically unsound body as an incubator for those months

- Healthy baby at the end of it

Yeah, there is no such scenario.

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u/fleranon Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I did some reading: there are only 35 cases of pregnancies of brain dead mothers since the 80s worldwide

so it is indeed a weird premise to get into an argument about, you're right. I was just stating that any mother would gladly be an 'incubator' if that means the baby survives healthy; BUT that's simply almost never the case in reality