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Is Jahi McMath alive?

Is Jahi McMath alive?

Saturday, September 9, 2017

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Is Jahi McMath alive?
     
A legal battle over an allegedly brain-dead American teenager is set to continue, with a Californian judge ruling that girl may in fact be alive.

Alameda County Judge Stephen Pulido ruled Tuesday that it's up to a jury to determine whether Jahi McMath is still living. The judge had heard evidence from medical experts and viewed video footage that suggested that girl was still minimally conscious, despite adamant testimony from other specialists who say she meets all the relevant criteria of brain death.

In December 2013 13-year-old McMath suffered massive blood loss, cardiac arrest and severe oxygen deprivation following a routine tonsillectomy performed at Children’s Hospital Oakland. The girl was deemed brain dead by doctors and her parents were told that life-support would be withdrawn. The parents disagreed and commenced legal action against the hospital. The case has been heard by several courts over the past three years.

If the California jury rules in favour of McMath’s parents, this would significantly increase the damages that could be awarded for the botched operation.

Bioethicist Thaddeus Mason Pope has called for “clear and precise language” in the broader ethical debate:

“…it is not logical to say that Jahi was correctly determined dead in 2013 and is now alive.  If she does not now meet the prevailing medical criteria for brain death, then she did not really ever meet the legal definition of death in 2013… That apparently means there is something deficient about the way we measure brain death.” 
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Saturday, September 9, 2017

Planned Parenthood is an organisation which inspires both love and loathing. One of its admirers is the Lasker Foundation, which has just presented it with the Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award for services to reproductive health.

Since many Laskers have gone on to win Nobels, PP is suddenly on the starting blocks for a Nobel Peace Prize. If it were only for its success in promoting contraception and abortion, it might be too controversial even for the Norwegian Nobel Committee. However, as a one-fingered salute to President Donald Trump, who has promised to defund PP, it could prove nearly irresistible. Read all about it below. 

On a completely different topic, if you happen to live in Melbourne and are free on Thursday evening, there will be a launch of my book, The Great Human Dignity Heist, in Carlton. The details are on our Facebook page. It would be great to meet lots of BioEdge readers there.

Cheers,

 
Michael Cook
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