Abstract

Brief summaries are presented of an article and two editorials which appeared in the 3 September 1982 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association on the clinical and ethical issues involved in deciding whether to provide life support treatment for pregnant women who are irreversibly comatose or brain dead. The article, by William P. Dillon and four other physicians, describes the contrasting decisions they made in two actual cases. The editorials, one by Mark Siegler and Daniel Wikler and the other by Robert M. Veatch, discuss broad issues of how these patients should be treated and who should decide.

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