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By Kim Schwartz, Texas Right to Life 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...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The family of Niall McGrath told the Irish Sun News that Niall, who awoke from a 21-year coma in 2010, would be dead if the decision recently passed by the UK’s Supreme Court had been in effect....
“The baby and the mother had become each other's savior” By Dave Andrusko Doctors in Kottayam, India, were left speechless—and understandably so. Last January, a woman described only as Betina had arrived at Caritas Hospital “half dead” after a nasty fall left her...
By Fr. Mark Hodges ADA, Minnesota, December 22, 2017 – Sheila Lewis was in a coma and hadn’t had anything to eat or drink for 12 days. Her family expected her to die, but instead she woke up and asked for a glass of water. Now she'll be able to celebrate Christmas...
By Xavier Symons A 35-year-old man who had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has shown signs of consciousness after neurosurgeons implanted a nerve stimulator into his chest. The findings, reported this week in the journal Current...
By Texas Right to Life Pro-Life Texans have long known the danger of giving hospital administrators power over life and death decisions. Under the anti-Life Texas 10-Day-Law, countless vulnerable Texans have been denied life-sustaining treatment against their written...
Carrie DeKlyen would not abort her baby to remain in clinical trial By Dave Andrusko There is courage and there is courage. And there is faith and there is faith. Carrie and Nick DeKlyen of Wyoming, Michigan have a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and...
Doctors did not expect him to survive car crash at 124 MPH By Dave Andrusko When a friend who was driving the car Don Brunelle was a passenger in plowed his brand new Corvette into a cement hydro pole at 124 MPH, the 64-year-old Brunelle “suffered a broken sternum;...
By Dave Andrusko Up until her 37th week, Louise Bonfield of Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, England had experienced an uneventful pregnancy. And when her right arm and leg began tingling, she was told by a doctor that it was merely a “trapped nerve.” But subsequently...
"The doctors were telling us there was nothing else they could do," said Beverly Giles, 49, of Madisonville, Tennessee. "They already gave up hope. We never gave up. She's fought this hard." By Dave Andrusko 20-year-old Sharista Giles was five months pregnant and on...