by Miranda Willborg | Feb 7, 2023 | Assistance, Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, Legislation, News
(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...
by Ashley Solano | Jan 31, 2023 | Assistance, Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, News
(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...
by Emily K. Cook | Jan 17, 2023 | Assistance, Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Futile Care, Issues, News
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...
by Emily K. Cook | Aug 27, 2022 | Bioethics, Euthanasia, Healthcare, Issues
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...
by Texas Right to Life | Aug 24, 2022 | Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Healthcare, Issues, News
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...
by Kim Schwartz | Jul 14, 2022 | Bioethics, Embryos and Cloning, Issues, News
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...
