Last week, I had the privilege of spending an afternoon with the family of two-year old Mirranda Lawson, who is on a ventilator at a Virginia hospital after inhaling a popcorn kernel in May. The family has been working with a Life Legal attorney in an attempt to have the hospital facilitate Mirranda’s transfer to …
Life Legal was at the Supreme Court as it rendered its decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the first abortion-related case to reach the Court in nearly ten years. The Court held that requiring abortion facilities to adhere to the same medical provisions as other ambulatory clinics was “unnecessary” and constituted an “undue burden” …
This week, Life Legal received a letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notifying us that religious employers must provide insurance coverage for elective abortions through the third trimester of pregnancy. In 2014, Life Legal filed a complaint with HHS after the California Department of Managed Health Care notified California insurance …
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While on the East Coast, I had the opportunity to meet a young woman who was largely unresponsive after she went into cardiac arrest. The decision was made to put her in hospice and to starve her to death. Two days after arriving in hospice, the young woman began to speak and move her arms and legs. …
Life Legal seeks medical personnel willing to provide independent evaluation… Thirteen-year-old Alex Pierce, brain-damaged in Loma Linda Medical Center, faces tests and medical rulings that may end his young life. His family is desperately seeking a physician or hospital to conduct an independent evaluation of Alex’s condition. If you know of medical personnel willing to …
Though California’s assisted suicide bill has gone into effect, pro-life attorneys are preparing for another court date to halt the measure. The End of Life Option Act legalizes doctor-assisted suicide, although questions remain about its legality and ethics on the part of lawmakers in how it was passed. Read more about Life Legal’s challenge to …
The young woman we wrote about in a previous post (June 5) was moved back to the hospital and is receiving nutrition and medical care. It did, however, take a court order to save her life. The woman had suffered an anoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest and her parents believed she had no hope …
The Life Legal Defense Foundation filed a lawsuit today challenging California’s physician-assisted suicide law, the “End of Life Option Act.” The civil rights lawsuit alleges Equal Protection violations of individuals labeled terminally ill and was filed by five physicians in southern California and by the American Academy of Medical Ethics (AAME), which represents more than 600 California doctors and …
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Two distressing phone calls today. One from the niece of an elderly woman who is in the hospital following an injury. She has slight dementia, but is able to communicate. The hospital decided it would no longer treat her, as care was “futile” because of the woman’s dementia. The woman’s niece tried to get a …
Life Legal applauds the Select Congressional Panel investigating Planned Parenthood for filing a complaint against the abortion giant, citing “serious and systematic violations of the HIPAA privacy rule.” The Panel requested a “swift and full investigation by the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services.” Complaints were also filed against …
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