The National Catholic Bioethics Center, a longtime supporter of ‘brain death,’ finally admitted that many so-called ‘brain dead’ people still have neuroendocrine function, though its defense of vulnerable patients doesn’t go nearly far enough.
The physician-patient relationship has suffered because doctors are being trained to see people with severe brain injuries as 'good as dead,' rather than valuing their humanity.
'Brain death' survivors prove that the diagnosis can be made in error, and that using these people for medical experimentation on this basis is ethically unjustified.
The concept of ‘brain death’ is factually baseless, but powerful medical organizations like the American Academy of Neurology are imposing it on America, threatening the lives of brain-injured people.
Using the controversial NRP-cDCD method, doctors are able to harvest patients’ organs after removing life support and while the patient is considered ‘brain-dead,’ despite the potential for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Julie Schlipp is seeking 'Justice for Jessica' with a wrongful death suit against Trinity Health Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where her daughter passed away in December 2021 as a result of procedures that went against her wishes.
The Uniform Law Commission, the group in charge of drafting the Uniform Determination of Death Act (RUDDA), remains undecided as to how to properly define 'brain death' in the American legal framework.
Since brain death determinations lead to organ donation or a withdrawal of life-sustaining measures, therefore a determination of brain death, when the person isn't brain dead, will almost certainly result in death.
The Court of Appeal ruled in favor of a challenge from the baby's parents that, due to a lack of legal representation, they had received an unfair trial.