Posted on 09/07/2017 11:13:43 AM PDT by Morgana
This could be one of the biggest bioethics cases since Terri Schiavo.
A judge has ruled that the teenager, declared dead in California, may not be dead. From the East Bay Express story:
Jahi McMath, the Oakland teenager whose brain death case has sparked national debate, may not currently fit the criteria of death as defined by a state law written in conjunction with the medical establishment, a judge wrote in an order Tuesday.
In his ruling, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stephen Pulido wrote that while the brain death determination in 2013 was made in accordance with medical standards, there remains a question of whether the teenager “satisfies the statutory definition of ‘dead’ under the Uniform Determination of Death Act.”
Bottom line, if she is not brain dead, then by definition, she’s alive. At the very least, there is enough doubt in this case based on Dr. Shewmon’s testimony to induce the judge to issue his ruling:
Pulido heavily cited Dr. Alan Shewmon, who concluded in a court declaration that Jahi doesn’t currently fit the criteria for brain death after reviewing 49 videos of her moving specific fingers and other extremities when given commands to do so.
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Shewmon, a professor emeritus of pediatrics and neurology at UCLA, wrote that Jahi “is a living, severely disabled young lady, who currently fulfills neither the standard diagnostic guidelines for brain death nor California’s statutory definition of death.” Shewmon also reviewed an MRI.
Full disclosure. I recently visited Jahi and her mother, along with Bobby Schindler.
That visit reinforced my view, previously written here, that this case demands a much deeper investigation than it has received heretofore, including impartial and thorough renewed medical examinations.
So I am very pleased the case is going forward.
I didn't know that. Talk about ghoulish. They cut pre-born babies up the same way.
I’m glad Oakland’s Children Hsptl was able to help your child.
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>> “Hopefully, if you get your way and all brain dead people will be kept alive on ventilators” <<
Clearly you are a Democrat!
Nothing I said indicated anything of the sort.
Brain dead is a nonsensical term.
There are many people alive today that had flat encephalograms, and were declared “brain dead” by the quacks.
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>> “ According to the doctors” <<
If even 5% of the things doctors say were true, we’d be in much better shape.
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I take it you have some hidden anger toward the medical profession. That’s fine, stay away from hospitals with that attitude.
I hope you have a spare bedroom or two to house the dead people you want to save.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I remember being at a playground with the Little Flashes once when a kid was trying to climb to the roof of a play structure. His father said “Get down off of there. I’m not spending the night at Children’s.” I told him “Yeah, I’ve been there.”
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Do you ever have any contact with reality at all?
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What a funny question. Any normal , intelligent person would think that you are the one not in contact with reality.
Where is Jahi? If she is really alive, why is she kept hidden? To keep suckers like you supporting the mother so she can get more money in a malpractice suit.
I used to have a humorous book that had the following passage:
Master, Speak to us of healing.
The Master replied thusly:
A wound can heal, and that is a miracle. A doctor can heal, too, and that is an even greater miracle.
Given the choice, and the odds, I’d rather have the wound than the doctor.
Ping
Sounds very gruesome
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LOL!
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Why are you so full of hatred for life?
Do you work for Planned Barrenhood?
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There are specific protocols for declaring death. Jahi was declared dead. You can put a person on a vent which breathes for them, but they are still dead. Dead is dead. Jahi is dead. Jahi is not a Terri Schiavo case. What you want is parents determining death. That does not work. You have to define what death is and follow that .
Otherwise, no one will be declared dead. They will be put on vents and allowed to rot in bed ( just like the reported smell from Jahi) People who live in fantasy land like you would want someone else to take care of all the “really dead but you don’t want to admit it dead” people. Get a grip on reality.
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The funny thing is that the ghouls that want to “unplug” keep them plugged in, sometimes for weeks, until they can sell their organs.
And therein lies the reality WRT Jahi!
UCSF had already sold her organs, and they were furious when Jahi got moved!
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Give up Kevorkian!
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This is a nice day. I am going to wash my boat and stop arguing with idiots. Bye bye. Life is too short to waste my time on zealots who have no reasoning skills.
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Truly you are a pro-death zealot devoid of reasoning skills!
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OMG that is unspeakably horrible. What about the doctors who cut out the organs of those victims thrashing about on the operating table? How can these monsters sleep at night?
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It has to do only with the fact that UCSF had already sold her organs.
That is the sole reason for the court fight.
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