Texas man sues to have pregnant wife taken off life support

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Texas man sues to have pregnant wife taken off life support

By Jana J. Pruet SOUTHLAKE, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man filed a suit on Tuesday to force a hospital to remove his pregnant, brain-dead wife from life support, challenging a state law that hospital officials say requires them to keep her on a ventilator. Marlise Munoz has been on life support in a hospital in Fort Worth since November 26 after suffering what her husband, Erick, believes was a pulmonary embolism. Erick Munoz and other members of her family want her removed because doctors told them she is brain dead, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in a state district court. "Marlise Munoz's death is a horrible and tragic circumstance, but by no means should (the hospital) be entitled to continue cutting into her deceased body in front of her husband and family under the guise of 'life sustaining' treatment," the suit says.

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