40-character summary: Catholic faith leaders dispute AAN's updated guidelines on brain death, urging Catholics to remove themselves from organ donation registries.
400-character summary: Catholic faith leaders express concern over the American Association of Neurology's (AAN) updated guidelines on brain death, fearing misdiagnosis and organ removal from living patients. They urge Catholics to remove themselves from organ donation registries until US law and medical practices surrounding brain death are resolved. The AAN's new guidelines may lower the criteria for brain death, prompting controversy among Catholic scholars, religious leaders, and pro-life activists.
March 02, 2024
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