DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Terri's Press Release: Doctors Misdiagnose Patient Thought to be in 23 Year "Persistent Vegetative State"

Doctors Misdiagnose Patient Thought to be in 23 Year "Persistent Vegetative State"

November 23, 2009 (daily.co.uk.)

A car crash victim diagnosed as being in a coma for the past 23 years has been conscious the whole time.

Rom Houben was paralysed but had no way of letting doctors know that he could hear every word they were saying. "I dreamed myself away," said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors thought was in a persistent vegetative state. He added: "I screamed, but there was nothing to hear."

Doctors used a range of coma tests before reluctantly concluding that his consciousness was "extinct."

But three years ago, new hi-tech scans showed his brain was still functioning almost completely normally.

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