The composition of Texas legislative committees is one of the greatest factors in determining which Pro-Life bills will progress through the legislative process and ultimately become law. The Texas House of Representatives Committee assignments for the 88th...
(This is the third article of our brain death series. Make sure to read Article 1 and Article 2, and be on the lookout for the next article in the series!) On paper, the concept of brain death seems relatively simple: apply a legal definition of brain death to a...
(This is the second article of our brain death series. Make sure to read Article 1: (Is Brain Death a New Way of Defining Death?) and be on the lookout for the next article in the series!) Only a handful of stories have appeared in the mainstream media of the...
You’ve probably known someone, perhaps a loved one, who was declared brain dead. An estimated 15,405 patients in American hospitals were diagnosed and declared brain dead in 2016. That’s about 42 every day. But what exactly is brain death? First coined in 1968, brain...
God is working miracles through Pro-Life folks like you! Jesus S. is a 44-year-old man who landed in the hospital after suffering complications from COVID-19.But on November 8, his brother called Texas Right to Life in desperation because this Christian hospital...
In Texas, a hospital can remove a patient’s life sustaining treatment if a doctor and hospital ethics committee deems treatment “medically inappropriate.” If the family cannot find another care facility in 10 days, the hospital will end the patient’s life—regardless...
In March of 2018, a 21-year-old man, Berman DePaz-Martinez, was life-flighted to John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) in Fort Worth, Texas, within Tarrant County. Berman had suffered a serious brain injury and his family rushed to the hospital to support him. After...
Jonathan M. lived a normal life, but a sudden traumatic brain injury changed his life forever. In 2018, the 39-year-old was found unresponsive in his East Texas home and rushed to the hospital. He had extensive damage to the left side of his brain and was almost...