Catholic News Agency: “Infant Boy Removed from Ventilator after Controversial ‘Brain Stem Death’ Ruling”
The NCBC’s Father Tad was quoted in a February 26, 2020, news story by Catholic News Agency:
“Brain stem death does not necessarily equal death,” said Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., a bioethicist and director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center.
“Britain has adopted an unorthodox and problematic approach whereby they try to classify somebody with irreversible brain stem damage as ‘dead’ even if other, higher centers of the brain manifest integrative functionality.”
“The medical profession outside of Britain does not widely share this perspective, and certainly the medical profession in the U.S. does not,” Pacholczyk, who holds a Ph.D in neuroscience from Yale University, he told CNA Feb. 26.