HEART TRANSPLANTS and ABORTIONS - What's the Answer? - Herbert W Armstrong - March 1969

Herbert W Armstrong

Heart transplants are forcing doubts about the definition of death. There is growing tendency to make abortions legal. Many are asking if medical science is going too far. A patient's heart stops beating. He stops breathing. The surgeons quickly spark the heart back to beating like once-dead batteries. The heart is kept beating by a mechanical device called a respirator. The patient does not regain consciousness. His brain is regarded as scientifically dead. But is the patient dead, while his heart is kept artificially beating by a machine? The time-honored definition of death is this: "When the heart and circulation no longer function " death has occurred. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library