Canadian man keeps brain dead pregnant wife on life support to give baby chance of surviving

PETER BAKLINSKI lifesitenews.com A Canadian woman and her unborn child are being kept on life support at the insistence of the husband and father who wants to give his unborn son, now at 27 weeks gestation, what he calls a “chance of survival”. Doctors declared Robyn Benson, 32, “brain dead” at the end of December, one day after suddenly suffering a massive blood leak to her brain. She was 22 weeks pregnant with the couple’s first child. But husband Dylan Benson, also 32, immediately told doctors to keep his wife on life support. “The thought process behind this is that if they can keep her body alive and growing our child until she is 26 weeks pregnant, it will give our unborn son a 60 to 80% chance of surviving a C-section at that time,” Benson wrote on a blog. The father has already named his unborn son Iver Cohen Benson. The story comes just one week after a Texas father obtained a judge’s order that forced hospital staff to remove life support from his 33-year-old wife who had been pronounced “brain dead.” When her life support was removed she was carrying their 22-week-old baby. Advocates fighting for the baby’s life called the move an “execut[ion] by judicial tyranny." While Benson is devastated by the loss of his beloved wife, he believes that he is honoring her by doing everything to protect their child. “Her family and my friends are all very supportive and all think that my wife would want me to try and give our child the best life possible, so that’s what I’m going to try and do, assuming that all goes well and I actually get to meet him.” Benson said the “toughest part” is knowing that the day his son is born is also the day he will have to say goodbye to his wife. to read more: lifesitenews.com