USCCB has “Serious Reservations” about Revising Definition of Brain Death

The National Catholic Bioethics Center and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops released a joint statement on July 12 expressing their “serious reservations” about proposed changes to the definition of brain death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA).

The Uniform Law Commission (ULC), a non-profit organization that drafts model legislation that state legislatures can adopt, will make a decision next Wednesday as to whether it will amend its definition of brain death. ---More...