Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Marlise Nicole Muñoz (August 20, 1980 – November 28, 2013) was an American woman at the center of a medical ethics controversy between November 2013 and January 2014. She suffered a suspected pulmonary embolism and was declared brain dead. Because she was pregnant, doctors at a Texas hospital kept her body on a respirator in the intensive care unit despite the determination of brain death. Muñoz's husband entered a legal battle to have her removed from life support. A Texas law restricts the application of advance directives in pregnant patients, but Muñoz's husband argued that the law was not applicable because his wife was legally dead. A judge ordered the hospital to remove life support and her cardiac functions stopped on January 26, 2014.. }
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- Death_of_Marlise_Muñoz abstract "Marlise Nicole Muñoz (August 20, 1980 – November 28, 2013) was an American woman at the center of a medical ethics controversy between November 2013 and January 2014. She suffered a suspected pulmonary embolism and was declared brain dead. Because she was pregnant, doctors at a Texas hospital kept her body on a respirator in the intensive care unit despite the determination of brain death. Muñoz's husband entered a legal battle to have her removed from life support. A Texas law restricts the application of advance directives in pregnant patients, but Muñoz's husband argued that the law was not applicable because his wife was legally dead. A judge ordered the hospital to remove life support and her cardiac functions stopped on January 26, 2014.".