Texas hospital to take pregnant, brain-dead woman off ventilator January 26, 2014 -- Updated 1801 GMT (0201 HKT) (CNN) -- A Texas hospital will follow a judge's order to remove a pregnant and brain-dead woman from respirators and ventilators in accordance with her family's wishes, hospital officials said Sunday. The announcement comes two days after a judge in Fort Worth had ordered John Peter Smith Hospital to end any artificial life support for Marlise Munoz. The hospital had said it was following Texas state law by attempting to preserve the fetus Munoz was carrying. From the onset, JPS has said its role was not to make nor contest law but to follow it. On Friday, a state district judge ordered the removal of life-sustaining treatment from Marlise Munoz. The hospital will follow the court order," a hospital statement said.