Mon Sep 16, 2024 – 12:32 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — On July 30, 2024, Amber Ebanks, a 23-year-old business student, suffered an intraoperative stroke and subarachnoid hemorrhage during the attempted embolization of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in her brain. Doctors at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx declared her “brain dead” ten days later even though she still had partial brain function.
Despite expert testimony that with proper treatment Amber was likely to recover additional brain function and even possibly consciousness, her care team refused to provide such treatments. The hospital also refused to feed Amber or provide basic hygiene to the point that her sister had to remove maggots from her hair.
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After being starved and neglected for a month in an American hospital, Amber’s heart finally gave out and she passed away on September 6, 2024. Her story demonstrates the utter cruelty of the brain death paradigm, which labels neurologically disabled people as being “dead already.” People declared dead have no civil rights, leaving “brain dead” people and their families defenseless against doctors, hospitals, and the courts. Kay Ebanks,
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