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 »
This is for those whose Christmas is not what they expected. While we rejoice in Christ’s birth always, Christmas can be a very difficult time if you are mourning the loss of a family member or trying desperately to keep a loved one with you as long as possible. It is the eve of Christmas …
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 …
April has been designated as National Donate Life Month and we at Life Legal want to take this opportunity to let you know about concerns we have with organ donor registries, namely premature organ harvesting of live patients who are unable to advocate for themselves. It all starts with brain death. The concept of “brain death” was created in the 1968 based on the assumption …
From the family of Alex Pierce: It is with a broken heart that I write that Alex has passed away this morning. All continued donations will go towards the costs associated with planning his funeral. We appreciate all the love and prayers that have been said in Alex’s name over this past month. I ask …