Texas Right to Life has intervened in many NBT/PIT conflicts. This intervention is appropriate because questions about whether to continue life-sustaining treatment are almost always value laden. But Texas Right to Life now also intervenes in brain death disputes. In this video they discuss their engagement with the Annelise Camp case.
Reasonable people disagree about whether it is worthwhile to continue life-sustaining treatment for catastrophically critically ill patients. But brain death was traditionally special and different. There was consensus that we do not continue technological support after death determination. But Texas Right to Life and many others now treat brain death like other serious brain injuries.
Texas Right to Life encourages supporters to petition the state legislature:
Dear Representative, I ask you to support policies in the 90th Legislative Session that will protect hospital patients from potentially lethal brain death tests and weaponized brain death declarations, especially when pushed for profitable organ harvesting practices.
Texans are robbed of their Right to Life when hospitals rush to diagnose them as “brain dead” and take away life-sustaining treatment, without giving the family time to seek other options.
This nearly happened to 2-year-old Annelise Camp.
Thank you for considering this issue. I look forward to helping protect patients together in 2027.
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