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To: BykrBayb

I guess this would be the latest and it sounds like there is still some life in her.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/03/21/jahi-mcmath-pronounced-dead-years-ago-healthy-new-photo-claims/82082798/


8 posted on 11/12/2016 10:02:46 AM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: Patriot Babe

The Jahi McMath situation is not a right to life case. Jahi is dead, and has been so since December 2013.

Her family occasionally makes noise about her still being alive, and publicizes efforts to have her declared not dead just because they have been able to preserve the body in a life-like state.

The fact is, that no reputable doctor has been able to examine Jahi; there is, in fact, no verification of her current status. If there were any evidence whatsoever—a voluntary movement, independent breathing, etc.—that she is actually alive, her family would have trumpeted it. Not only has there been nothing of the sort, but it has become extremely difficult to find any new updates on the case at all. For all anyone outside the family knows, they buried her secretly and keep trotting out old pictures to use to ask for donations.

One of the things I really dislike about the Jahi case is that it is lumped in with actual right to life cases. Treating every single case where the family wants to pull or prolong life support as if those cases are all the same without knowing or understanding any of the medical issues involved does not advance the pro-life cause. On the contrary, it makes pro-lifers look like kooks.

Jahi McMath: no brain activity, ergo, dead.

Terri Schindler: impaired, with a brain functioning to keep life processes going without external interference. Probably had decreased awareness as compared to a non-brain damaged person and definitely helpless, but alive until a deliberate act killed her.

The medical status of the woman in this story was not described anywhere. Her family wanted to pull her from life support, while the man who attacked her wanted her to remain on life support. It could be that she really was on her way out, and the attacker wanted to keep her on life support hoping for a miracle that would keep him from being charged with murder.

The bottom line is that each case must be judged on its own merits.


11 posted on 11/12/2016 12:07:17 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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