According to a document filed Friday through court hearings, the John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas said that the fetus of pregnant brain-dead Marlise Munoz is not viable. The fetus, according to her family’s attorneys, is "distinctly abnormal and deformed to the extent that the gender cannot be determined." 

The hospital had been arguing for weeks that, despite Munoz’s husband, Erick Munoz's request to remove her off life support, it would not take action because the fetus would die. Additionally, a Texas law does not allow removing life support because she was pregnant. Munoz's husband believes that the law is "nothing more than the cruel and obsene mutilation of a deceased body against the expressed will of the deceased and her family" and sued the hospital for not fulfilling his request. 

However, the hospital has declined her husband's request because a Texas 

"Over the past two months, nothing about my wife indicates that she is alive," Erick Munoz said. "What sits in front of me is a deteriorating body."

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