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August 4, 2005
Brain dead woman gives birth
Don't miss Tom Mayo's interesting analysis of the difficulty that the mainstream media has in explaining the context under which Susan Torres, a brain dead Virginia woman, gave birth to a baby girl this past Tuesday. Tom observes about the headline for the AP/Yahoo story:
Once dead, a patient can't die again. But, amazingly, 37 years after the Ad Hoc Harvard Medical School report on "irreversible coma," the public's resistance to the notion of neurological criteria for death is curiously persistent.
Posted by Tom at August 4, 2005 9:07 AM
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