Pregnant Brain Dead Mother Marlise Munoz Taken Off Life Support; Husband Receives Body and Baby Announced Dead

On Jan. 26, 2014, John Peter Smith Hospital in Ft. Worth, Texas, refused to petition the controversial decision by Judge R.H. Wallace, Jr. when he told the hospital to take Mrs. Marlise Munoz and her baby off of life support.

Following the rejection to continue to preserve Baby Munoz, the hospital has removed the feeding tube from her mother, which was keeping Baby Munoz alive.

"The death of Baby Munoz represents a colossal failure on so many levels. Her father failed her. The Attorney General of Texas Greg Abbot failed her. The hospital failed her. Finally, by usurping the will of the people of Texas, the courts failed her. If only one of those in position to stop this execution of Baby Munoz would have stepped up to the plate and done the right thing she would have been born alive in the next few weeks. Baby Munoz was a human being who deserved the same legal protections of born people. The truth is Baby Munoz was executed by judicial tyranny," said Mark Harrington, Executive Director of Created Equal a press release.

Created Equal is a social action movement seeking to end abortion.

As previously reported, Marlise Munoz became brain dead when she collapsed from a unsuspected pulmonary embolism on November 26. Her paramedic husband Erick gave her CPR before an ambulance arrived after he discovered her on the living room floor.

As a result, Erick Munoz had indicated last year that he wanted to pull the plug on his pregnant wife's life support after she became effectively brain dead while 18 weeks pregnant.

According to Erick, Marlise would not have wanted to be kept alive by machines before she was very sick. "It's hard to reach the point where you wish your wife's body would stop," said Munoz to WFAA-TV, Dallas last year.