Organ donation is always a universal good... right? This conversation is the type that has the potential to completely challenge previously held beliefs. RFK issued a press release on July 21, 2025 showing how troubled the process of organ donation is. They found a large number of cases where the procurement process began even with neurological “signs of life.” This has us revisiting a very important conversation and asking some necessary questions.

Are brain-dead patients TRULY brain dead? Are the organs being harvested from someone who REALLY has no life left in them? Heidi Klessig, MD, tells us her own story and how she came to have her own beliefs challenged, and explains why she is now dedicated to the informed consent of all registered organ donors, those considering donating their organs, their families, and the recipients of transplanted organs. The question we all really need to ask is... When is somebody truly dead?

GUEST:

Heidi Klessig, MD

https://www.respectforhumanlife.com/

PODCAST MENTIONS:

EP 157: Brain Death & Organ Donation...

When is a person really dead? with Heidi Klessig, MD

HHS Finds Systemic Disregard for Sanctity of Life in Organ Transplant System

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hrsa-to-reform-organ-transplant-system.html

Harvesting Organs & Cherishing Life: What Christians Need to Know About Organ Donation and Procurement

Christopher W. Bogosh RN-BC and Heidi Klessig MD

https://a.co/d/5uoCuoS

The Brain Death Fallacy

Heidi Klessug MD

https://a.co/d/fscaC3U

UDDA Uniform Determination of Death Act

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Determination_of_Death_Act

Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life

Franklin G. Miller and Robert D. Truog

https://a.co/d/cU51mWJ

Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

UAGA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Anatomical_Gift_Act

Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting

DAFOH

https://dafoh.org

The Phantom of the Organ

John Guzzi, M.D.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2401849

Donation After Circulatory Death

DCD

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9755608/

Was football player Terrance Howard really dead? His parents didn’t think so

https://www.respectforhumanlife.com/post/was-football-player-terrance-howard-really-dead-his-parents-didn-t-think-so

Hospital wants to pull the plug on inhumanely neglected 23-year-old woman who is not brain dead

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/hospital-wants-to-pull-the-plug-on-inhumanely-neglected-23-year-old-woman-who-is-not-brain-dead/

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