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BioEdge: When love in a marriage is dead…

BioEdge: When love in a marriage is dead…

Bioedge

When love in a marriage is dead…

by Michael Cook | 22 Sep 2019 |

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Here’s a curly one about informed consent. Can you marry someone who is brain dead? A Taiwanese man did recently, with his fiancée in a hospital bed and hooked up to a life support system.

The wife, identified only as Wang, had two sons aged 12 and 13 with her partner, Lin, but they had never married.

A few moments before she was taken off life support, Lin and his unconscious bride had a bedside wedding witnessed by her family. The couple was dressed in matching red T-shirts and the bride’s heavily bandaged head was adorned with a white veil.

"We can finally get married,” Lin said as he slipped the wedding band onto Wang's finger. “Please hurry up and wake up. Do you like the ring that I chose?"

Wang was knocked over by a car making an illegal turn in a suburb of Taipei in late August and suffered a devastating brain injury. A few days later, her family allowed doctors to withdraw her life support. Twelve of her organs were transplanted.

Michael Cook is editor of BioEdge

I had a friend once whose dad collected clapped-out old refrigerators. As hobbies go, it was pretty harmless, although disposing of 34 useless refrigerators was a bit of a drag after he died. But I wonder what use Indiana abortionist Ulrich Klopfer had for 2,246 foetuses. As we report below, the late Dr Klopfer stored them away, keeping them secret even from his family.

To me this horrific discovery is front-page news, but the media has, for the most part, ignored it. To its credit, the New York Times ran a story -- even if it was on page 22. Perhaps that says something about what Americans think of abortion doctors. Ho hum, that’s just the kind of stuff that these guys get up to in their spare time… get over it.