(NRO) – This could be one of the biggest bioethics cases since Terri Schiavo.
A judge has ruled that the teenager, declared dead in California, may not be dead.
From the East Bay Express story:
Jahi McMath, the Oakland teenager whose brain death case has sparked national debate, may not currently fit the criteria of death as defined by a state law written in conjunction with the medical establishment, a judge wrote in an order Tuesday.
In his ruling, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stephen Pulido wrote that while the brain death determination in 2013 was made in accordance with medical standards, there remains a question of whether the teenager “satisfies the statutory definition of ‘dead’ under the Uniform Determination of Death Act.” CONTINUE