“I am aware that there was vaginal bleeding,” Dr. Andrew Healey told a hearing in Brampton Superior Court on Wednesday. But they — the doctors aligned against McKitty’s desperate family — would have us believe that their interpretation of “whole brain death” is correct. It’s a circular argument: She’s dead because we say so, because there’s no evidence of brain stem function. The doctors argue that McKitty’s movements are nothing more than a reflex and shouldn’t be mistaken for signs of life. The family accuses the doctors of rushing to harvest, focusing on the organs rather than McKitty as a human being.

Source: thestar October 19, 2017 00:16 UTC