Here I present one recent case in which Life Legal’s intervention saved the life of a patient scheduled for cancellation of appropriate medical care. It’s important to note that, while the case was of vital and unique significance to the patient and his family, and while we at Life Legal always adopt their viewpoint as …
Just ONE EXAMPLE of how we save lives on a DAILY BASIS…. Read More »
A few months ago, I told you about “Baby Olivia*,” who suffered a brain injury when she was only two weeks old. Since then, we have been working with Olivia’s mom to fight for the infant’s life. Doctors told Olivia’s mom her daughter would not survive and urged her to withdraw the baby’s ventilator. Olivia’s …
Baby Olivia SAVED from cruel death and ORGAN HARVESTING…! Read More »
Last week, I told you about Baby Olivia*, who was nearly killed in a children’s hospital. Less than a week after Olivia was admitted, doctors told her mother they wanted to remove the baby’s ventilator because they thought she was “brain dead” and would never improve. Life Legal brought in a local attorney who immediately …
Life Legal attorneys have been in court over the past two weeks on behalf of Rev. Samuel*, a California pastor who was declared “brain dead” by doctors. The hospital had refused to perform a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, which resulted in a serious brain injury. Two weeks before the hospital did the brain …
VICTORY: Pastor ESCAPES facility that meant to terminate him… Read More »
Three years ago Joshua Barras suffered a brain injury that left him disabled. Now his wife Maegan wants to kill him by removing his feeding tube. Life Legal is representing Kelly Barras, Josh’s mother. Tragically, Josh has not received the rehabilitative therapy he needs, even though Maegan has launched several online fundraisers ostensibly for his treatment. Josh and Maegan were in …
Life Legal holds the line against CRUEL, KILL-CRAZY SPOUSE…! Read More »
These were the first words that came from a Life Legal affiliate attorney when I called to ask him how the case was going. The attorney had gone to court to represent Lisa*, whose father Robert* was about to be intentionally dehydrated and starved to death. Lisa has been caring for her father for 14 years. Robert suffers from dementia, but still recognizes his daughter …
Caroline* called us after her mother’s care was taken over by a court-appointed guardian. The guardian does not know the family and has never visited the woman – yet she can liquidate the woman’s assets, enter into contracts on her behalf, determine where she will live, and make life and death decisions about her health care. Last …
Court-appointed KILLERS call themselves “GUARDIANS….” Read More »
The wife of a brain-injured man in Louisiana is determined to dehydrate him to death by removing his nutrition and hydration. The euphemism for this barbaric treatment is “comfort care.” It used to be reserved for true end-of-life situations where a person with a terminal illness had only hours to live and could no longer assimilate food and water. Today, however, …
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” —Edgar Allan Poe Recently, I shared with you our concern about the state of organ harvesting in American hospitals. I told you about the trend among some bioethics experts to …
We are receiving a lot of calls regarding health care access and advocacy during COVID. As the number of COVID cases increase across the nation, many hospitals no longer allow visitors. This means patients are not only deprived of beneficial companionship, they are also deprived of access to loved ones who can advocate for their …
Health Care Access and COVID: How to Protect Yourself Read More »