"It's so frustrating that state law can overrule the decisions that I leave in his hands when he knows me better than anyone,"
"And the state doesn't know me at all."
Viktoria Koskenoja, an emergency medicine physician, drafted an advance directive specifying removal from life support even if pregnant. Michigan law invalidates advance directives and living wills when women are pregnant, preventing designated decision-makers from refusing life-sustaining treatment in that circumstance. Koskenoja and eight other Michiganders sued to overturn the pregnancy exclusion, asserting it infringes on reproductive freedom protected by the state constitution. More than two dozen states maintain similar pregnancy-based restrictions. Public attention increased after a brain-dead pregnant woman in Georgia was kept on life support for four months until delivery, raising end-of-life and pregnancy care conflicts.
Read at The Washington Post
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