Vatican to “debate” organ transplantation? Brain death? By Judie Brown

It has come as a surprise to some that the Pontifical Academy for Life is co-hosting a November 2008 conference with the theme “A Gift for Life.” I have known that the conference has been on the drawing board for some months now. This past June, when concerns were first expressed to me, I, as an Academy member, joined with Professor Joseph Seifert to ask the Academy’s leadership to reconsider the topic of the conference and perhaps postpone it until Academy members could discuss concerns privately in a closed-door meeting.

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