In Texas, a hospital is keeping a brain-dead woman on life support against the wishes of her family because she is pregnant. Marlise Munoz collapsed in late November, likely because of a blood clot in her lungs. At the time she was 14 weeks pregnant, a stage when the fetus is months away from viability. Doctors say Munoz has no brain activity. But the hospital in Fort Worth is citing a Texas law they say forbids removing a pregnant woman from life support. The woman’s husband, Erick Munoz, told a local ABC station his wife explicitly told him she never wanted to be on life support.

Erick Munoz: “We talked about it. We were both paramedics. We’ve seen things out in the field, and we both knew that we didn’t want to be on life support. You’ve reached a point where, you know, you wish your wife’s body would stop.”

Despite her family’s pleas, the hospital reportedly plans to keep Munoz on life support for the next several weeks until the fetus is potentially viable. At least a dozen states have statutes that force women to stay on life support against their previous directives if they are pregnant.