In the United States, one in every six individuals has experienced a brain injury. When a patient with a brain injury is in a coma, doctors typically rely on bedside exams that test motor reflexes to evaluate responsiveness. This exam may include a light flashing in...
Texas has some of the strongest Pro-Life laws in the nation, but the same cannot be said about our neighbor to the West. In response to Pro-Life laws passed in Texas, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has launched an initiative to recruit Texas abortion...
41-year-old Jennifer Flewellen remained in a coma for nearly five years after a car crash in Michigan, but everything changed in August 2022 with just a simple joke. Jennifer's mother, Peggy, sought to bring a glimmer of joy by sharing a joke. To everyone's surprise,...
2023 offered a unique opportunity for Texas lawmakers to pass Pro-Life bills for the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned. This session, the Legislature ignored preborn children yet improved protections for vulnerable patients. However, there were five Pro-Life...
2023 was a mixed bag on Pro-Life issues in the Texas Capitol. The Legislature neglected preborn children by failing to stop illegal abortion pills coming into our state and underfunding Pro-Life pregnancy resource centers and adoption agencies. However, one lawmaker...
A judge in the United Kingdom ruled to take away an 8-month-old baby’s life-sustaining treatment against her parents’ will. Baby Indi is responsive, but Judge Robert Peel decided the child’s “quality of life” was “extremely limited” and her life therefore should be...
There are over 100,000 Americans on the national transplant waiting list. Over the last 50 years the demand for organs has grown continuously. There is far more demand than there is supply. Specifically, there is an excess demand for fresh, viable organs. A recent...
Chances are, you know of someone or had a loved one who was given a declaration of brain death. What if we told you your state might loosen the rules to declare patients brain dead and harvest their organs? The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) is a group of lawyers that...