(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...
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...
Further demonstrating the growing commodification of human Life and the family, a same-sex couple in California sued a fertility clinic after the surrogate mother they hired gave birth to a baby girl, instead of a boy, in 2021. Albert and Anthony Saniger had always...
Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is precisely the kind of undaunted rebuke of Roe v. Wade toward which the Pro-Life movement has long labored. He confronts every weakness of Roe, rebuts every justification to...
You deserve to know what your elected officials accomplish (and what they don’t) in the state Capitol in Austin. This is why we create the Pro-Life Scorecard, detailing every vote, every bill signed on to, every amendment, and every public statement that your...