Man Wants Baby With His Brain Dead Wife | Chicago Med | MD TV

Dr. Halstead faces a moral issue when the husband of his brain dead patient asks to harvest her eggs in order to have their child, despite her being on birth control when she was alive.

From Chicago Med Season 1 Episode 13 'Us' - A husband has an unusual request after the death of his wife; Dr. Charles tries to deal with a patient who wants to cut off his own arm; Dr. Rhodes is concerned about possible complications for a boy who swallowed magnets.

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[batbabe]

Reproductive abuse is a thing. She may have not wanted one and just pretended to try with him so he didn't get angry. He comes across as controlling.

[Idontwantmynametobepublic]

Everyone is arguing about how if it’s unfair to the guy or his wife but can we talk about how it’s unfair to the child? Stop bringing in children in unfavourable situations because of selfish desires.

[lounirs]

For me, it's not just about if she wanted it or not (it is important, but it's not just that), i think it's creepy for this man to make his wife live through their kid. You get a child if you want a child, not because you want to have see part of a dead person in them

[ayanoaishi]

This is so unfair for her she clearly didn’t want a child and he’s ignoring all the signs

[primcasiha]

How could this be legal? Unless she gave a written consent, no one should be harvesting her eggs.

[xoangelicaf]

It’s creepy to want a baby with a dead person that bad after they already told you she was on birth control

[rannvamacdonaldarnskov]

Had a genderswapped situation happen close to me. Husband had some form of aneurysm, and they had been actively trying for over a year. Wife asked if this could be done, and the husbands parents also agreed that that is what he would have wanted.
Doctors said firmly no. They would have done it if he had given written consent before he fell in a coma, but they were not gonna do that when they couldnt get consent from him. He passed away shortly after.

I understand the grief and frustration in being told no, "should you continue trying for a baby between us if i die" isnt exactly a conversation people have when they plan to start a family, but proceeding to harvest genetical material for reproduction on someone without their consent... no, never.

[rynfornow]

“We want to believe something so badly that we ignore the reality in front of us.”

There’s very little context, but something tells me this is a controlling relationship. She probably explicitly said “No” and he thought it meant “later.” And the rest are his ideas.

[Lellamellow]

Thats disgusting !
She can´t even consent .
She can´t tell him no.
And what about the poor child ?
It will grow up in an awful environment.

[Sanjali]

Well, now we know why she got the IUD. The guy seems very controlling

[aneshaelizabeth]

Clearly she didn’t want kids with him for a reason. This reminds me of when I was in my last relationship and I was secretly on birth control so I wouldn’t get pregnant. Abusive relationships are a thing.

[njaj]

I get why he’s doing it but it’s very inhumane to use your wife as an incubator just so that you can have a child

[NathanielTavington]

It is super creepy that this dude's first reaction to his wife's death is to use her body like some kind of egg farm.

[lydiajohnson]

Damn even in death a woman can’t control her body

[jenk]

If my husband turned out to be a creep like this guy and tried to do this to me I'd haunt the shit out of him. I'm talking blood coming out of the walls, furniture on the ceiling, flies everywhere, screaming and banging all night. I'd never let him sleep again.

[countrygirlxo]

Maybe she thought he would be a awful dad. My cousin was married to a guy for 14 years, she refused to have kids with him because of his uncontrollable anger. She finally divorced him and started dating a guy a couple months later and is now pregnant.

[neocomp]

So just because she got in an accident that left her brain dead and thus unable to consent or withold, the husband had the right to her body? With that kind of precedent, who is to say this hospital wouldn't push every dying patient with no ability to consent to the organ donor list, and apply pressure to the next of kin?

[sallysmith]

I think it’s totally wrong since the wife is not alive and can’t consent to creating the child. If they had made embryos before hand it would be a different story. Imagine the child growing up knowing his mother never knew he would be born, never even wanting them.

[KS-sejb]

She could have wanted a baby still, just felt it wasn’t the right time financially or something, and didn’t know how to express this to him. Who knows. I don’t watch the show, just these clips 🤷‍♀️

[rachaelsnapp]

She couldn't give consent to her eggs being harvested so her husband could still have a child that would be biologically hers. That just seems to unethical on so many levels. Especially since she had an IUD so clearly she didn't want the same thing as him.