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>> so make it plain, what is the law? how does it read? >> if somebody is in a persistent vegetative state, in a coma, not when somebody is clinically dead. you cant say were talking about life support, when every state in the union defines her as dead. >> do you think this will be reversed in a court? >> i dont know. i think particularly in texas, where there is this intense opposition to abortion and anything that would limit the life of a fetus, i wouldnt want to predict how this would come o...

Child gets to live. >> you do not get to choose -- >> let me finish. i do think that this is about a right to life with the parent. weve never seen this before where the mother is the one who is not able to say she wants an abortion or not. its not cut and dry, this conversation. >> she was a paramedic. she faced on a daily basis life and death issues. she discussed this at length -- >> so she discussed this -- >> she did -- here the way the law is written, the law -- the hospital is interpretin...

That they have to keep her alive in spite of what the -- i will make a prediction. jeff is notoriously bad about predictions. but they now have lawyers. i believe these lawyers are going to go into federal court, get a judge to order that they honor the wishes -- theyll give notice, theyll be there the following day. >> they actually had a conversation, if she were pregnant? >> we dont know that. >> thats why its so very important here. >> the family is saying she wanted to be taken off life sup...

Where there is this intense opposition to abortion and anything that would limit the life of a fetus, i wouldnt want to predict how this would come out. >> how can a dead person bring a live baby to birth? >> there are two categories of death. brain death, which she is, and then there is circulatory, whether you have the vascular -- >> were talking about semantics. the bottom line is, you have a child -- because i disagree with you, jeff. a 20-week-old. >> they dont know, because they feel -- or...

If there is hope that this child can be born and living a life, i think that person needs to be protected. >> every pregnant woman has a life within them that has a chance to live. some women choose to end that. thats her choice. >> she didnt make that choice. >> she made a choice to inform her husband that she didnt want to be kept alive. >> youve got her husband, her father, and the idea that were sitting here in new york dictating to this family what should happen with this woman who is dead,...