In Texas, if a patient is unconscious and incapable of making their own medical

decisions, a spouse, adult child, parents, or nearest living relative can make decisions
for the patient. It is stated right here in the government website, and it says “ Provides
that if an individual is incompetent or unable to communicate his or her own medical
decisions and no guardian or representative with Medical Power of Attorney has been
appointed, then medical decisions may be made by the attending physician with the
cooperation of one of the following people: the patient's spouse, an available adult child
of the patient, one of the patient's parents, or the patient's nearest living relative.”
In this situation, I am assuming that the brother was the nearest living relative, and had
the option to keep Bolden on life support and have her bear her children. The biggest
question in this case was whether Bolden was feeling pain or not, and was it unethical
to keep her alive to bear children. If it was my situation I would have tried to keep the
babies alive and hope they could be born. I think they made the right decision by having
the babies be born prematurely, that way the babies were still born, and they didn’t have
to keep Bolden on life support longer than she needed to. I think I would have done the
same thing. The children are a good way to remember Bolden, and I know that a mother
would do anything to make sure her babies are alive and safe.

Health Care Directives | Office of the Texas Governor | Greg Abbott

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE CHAPTER 313. CONSENT TO MEDICAL TREATMENT
ACT (texas.gov)