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By Dave Andrusko Even by the standards of the often unhinged musings found in bioethics journals, we are on an awful roll of late. Following up on something I wrote Wednesday, we have three articles today deconstructing the argument for infanticide, aka “After-birth...
By Dave Andrusko Some of you may be personally familiar with this scenario. When faced with a patient who has suffered serious brain injuries, many doctors almost reflexively conclude that the prognosis is hopelessly bleak and suggest to that the family “pull the...
By Dave Andrusko What are the odds? Two life-affirming articles from of all places NPR (see “Scientist: Fetal cells with healing properties remain in mothers for Life”) and the New York Times Magazine (“An Awakening: A mother describes the surprising effect that the...
By Dave Andrusko In recent years a number of ingenious studies have demonstrated that many patients in a so-called “Persistent Vegetative State” (PVS) have been misdiagnosed and that some actually in a PVS are consciously aware. More fascinating and suggestive...
Editor’s note. This appears on the blog of the Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization. Two cases of women in their 50s with serious brain damage went before the courts recently. Neither patient is dying, but both require 24 hour nursing care and are fed...
By Dave Andrusko We’ve written several times about the potentially historic case of “M,” a 51-year British woman diagnosed to be in a “minimally conscious state” whose family is in court trying to win the right to withdraw her food and fluids. At issue is whether the...
By Dave Andrusko Even as England’s Court of Protection is hearing a potentially precedent setting case in “M,” that same court yesterday authorized the withdrawal of food, fluids, and heart medication from a woman said to be in persistent vegetative state (PVS). The...
By Dave Andrusko It’s not often that it occurs, fortunately, but there legal cases where precedents of unbelievable danger can be established. Such is the case with a 51-year-old woman identified (for legal reasons) only as “M.” England has already established the...
Editor’s note. This appears on the blog of the Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization. The case of M, a woman who suffered severe brain damage as a result of encephalitis in 2003, has just had its third day of hearings before Justice Baker (pictured) in...
Rediscovering consciousness in PVS Patients Editor’s note. This appears on the blog of Alex Schadenberg, executive editor of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. The recent edition of Discover Magazine is reporting on new research that is showing that the human brain...