Conversations That Matter “Dr. Heidi Klessig from Respect for Human Life uncovers the unsettling truths behind organ donation and the concept of “brain death.” She also shares her personal journey as a former anesthesiologist, revealing a shocking experience that led her to question the ethics of organ procurement. From the controversial history of brain death […]
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By Michael Arthur Vacca, M. Theol, J.D., BA “Brain death,” or death by neurological criteria is a legal fiction that is refuted by sound medicine, philosophy, and theology. As I will substantiate in this paper and I substantiated in my previous paper in the Linacre Quarterly on the subject,1 so called “brain death” or “death
By Michael Arthur Vacca and Louis Brown Jr. The American Academy of Neurology has altered its guidelines, at great cost to the life and dignity of patients. What if your local hospital could declare your family member “brain dead” even though part of her brain was still functioning? What if the hospital could use that illegitimate
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The Speaker Salon interviews two doctors and a theologian on the topic of organ harvesting and the controversies surrounding brain death diagnostics. Dr. Heidi Klessig, author of The Brain Death Fallacy shares about her career as an anaesthesiologist and why she was needed in the operating room to administer anaesthesia to a man who was
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– yet, they keep updating their guidelines. That alone should give us pause. This newest iteration actually changes the definition of brain death from “irreversible” cessation of all brain function to “permanent” loss of function. The Uniform Law Commission recently declined to adopt this change because it is too subjective. A permanent brain injury is
Board-certified neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, joins Joe Zalot to discuss how proposed changes to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) could change the legal definition of brain death. Recording and additional resources available here: https://www.ncbcenter.org/bioethics-on-air-podcast-cms/bioethics-on-air-episode-109-redefining-death-by-revising-the-udda FOLLOW-UP INTERVIEW: Neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, rejoins Joe Zalot to update listeners on efforts to redefine death by revising
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The Health Care Civil Rights Task Force strongly condemns proposed changes to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) that would allow for subjective determinations of death. The Uniform Law Commission, a non-profit group of lawyers that creates model legislation to bring uniformity to state laws, week recently to discuss changing how death is determined.
Presentation by attorney and bioethicist Michael Vacca to the Catholic Nurse’s Association on the ethics of determining death solely by neurologic criteria, i.e., brain death.
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Colleen Haupt Host of Living a Culture of Life speaks with Michael Vacca from Christ Medicus Foundation concerning the teachings of the Church in regard to organ donation. The Dark Side of Organ Donation – YouTube
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