The purpose of this essay is to explore the higher-brain death (HBD) criterion, to identify arguments supporting and opposing the proposal, and to locate this proposal, broadly speaking, within the contemporary brain death debate. Finally, the essay will engage the question of how the proposal might be viewed in Christian thought, and whether it may be endorsed from a Christian standpoint.
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Doctors and the Gillick Case
In April this year a letter to the Prime Minister was handed in at 10, Downing Street from some of Britain’s top ‘agony aunts’. Signatories included Katie Boyle, Claire Rayner, Marjorie Proops and Anna Raeburn. They urged the Government not to accede to pressure to rescind the existing guidelines published by the Department of Health and Social Security whereby doctors can provide contraceptive a device without the knowledge of the parents to girls under 16.