Jahi McMath Update: Set to Receive High School Diploma

2016BarnardMom
Sat, 30 Aug 2014 04:48:34 +0000

No, that article said she is at St. Peter’s Children’s Hospital in New Jersey because of the laws in NJ about brain death.

“In March, about three months after she was declared brain-dead by several doctors, the Oakland girl was taken to Saint Peter’s Children’s Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She likely went there because a 1991 state law gives patients and their families the right to reject a medical diagnosis of brain death on medical grounds and decide whether to continue organ support. The family still maintains the girl responds to voice commands and touch.”