Who Owns the Human Body?

by Jennifer Lahl

Proposals to use brain-dead women as “whole body gestational surrogates” are utterly inhumane.  Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2023

Wrongly Declared "Brain Dead"

by Wesley J. Smith

This kind of story sends a chill. Doctors at a Fresno hospital wrongly declared a patient to be dead by neurological criteria (a.k.a. brain death) when he wasn’t actually dead, resulting in a near harvesting of organs from a living patient. Luckily, the mistake was caught in time. The man died . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Apr 2007

Irresponsible Headline: "Organ Harvesting Begins Before Brain Death"

by Wesley J. Smith

The headline on this story is irresponsible because it implies that organs are being harvested before the donor is really dead. Not so. This organ procurement protocol, known as “non heart beating cadaver donor” removes organs from people who died from irreversible cardio/pulmonary . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Feb 2007