Texas: An American national Erick Munoz is trying to force doctors in a bid to let his comatose pregnant wife Marlise die despite the unborn baby still alive inside her.
In an interview to ABC news, Erick Munoz says his wife hasn't regained consciousness since suffering an embolism in November, would not have wanted to live life hooked up to a machine.
But Marlise is pregnant, and Texas state law puts the rights of a fetus over the wishes of its mother.
The baby Marlise is carrying is now closer to 18 weeks, but Munoz says doctors have no idea what effects the oxygen deprivation Marlise has suffered will have if the baby is delivered.
He said the unborn baby may have already suffered irreparable damage, doctors should fulfill my wife's wish of not being on any life support.
Erick and Marlise were both paramedics. Erick says he and his wife had seen enough in the line of duty to know what they would want in this situation.
The couple already has a one-year-old son.
