Closing out a great week at the RPT Convention with the Texas Congressional Luncheon! Excited to serve alongside so many strong conservative leaders who are ready to fight for Texas, deliver results, and defend the values that make our state the best in the nation. Big thanks to @texforcongress for chairing this incredible event! @tedcruz @JaceYarbrough @SteveTothTX @JudgeTano @SellForTexas19 @TreverNehls @AlexMealerTX @TheAKGuy @EricDFloress @JonBonck

The idea of “brain death” was proposed in 1968, at the very end of the age of medical paternalism. And medical paternalism continues to perpetuate the concept to this day. The 1968 Harvard ad hoc Committee never stated that these deeply comatose people were actually dead. They said their lives were a burden to themselves and others — acknowledging that these people are not dead, since how can a corpse be burdened? The parents of Annelise Camp can see that their daughter is not dead: she has vital signs, is warm, has supple pink skin, and is having bowel movements. When doctors say they want to declare Annelise to be dead, is it any wonder that her parents suspect they are being gaslit? If doctors aren’t being trustworthy about questions of life and death, who can blame people for wondering what else aren’t they telling us? This medical paternalism surrounding the brain death diagnosis must stop. Brain death is an idea without a foundation that only continues for the sake of the organ transplantation business that so quickly came to depend upon it. It would be more honest to treat neurologically injured people in the same way as people with severe cancer, catastrophic trauma, or multi-system organ failure, and make their withdrawal of support decisions on a case-by-case basis in conjunction with their families. It’s completely legitimate to tell parents that their child has a poor prognosis. It’s completely ethical to compassionately withdraw medical support at the end of life and allow a child to pass into eternity knowing she was loved. But it is deceitful to tell parents that a neurologically injured child could somehow be dead already.

Wow. Team USA holds a postgame prayer on the field after their World Cup win over Paraguay Win or lose, give glory to God 🙏

Good stuff on this medical freedom plank at the @TexasGOP convention. I particularly like 132(h)… “Prohibit intimidation tactics by TMB lawyers against physicians.”

What’s that you say Mrs Robinson? Confirmed by Governor Abbott’s Office, there’s no place for trash talking racists like you in Texas.

🚨 90% of therapists in mental health aren’t “helpers”—they’re groomers. Waiting to trans your kid. Hyper-focusing on sexuality with elementary schoolers. Pushing affirmation over truth, ideology over healing. And the <4% of us conservative therapists who actually do exploratory therapy, challenge distress, and protect kids? They openly say we should “just d!e.” This is the “mental health” field today. Parents: Your child’s therapist might be the biggest threat in the room. Fire the groomers. Protect your kids. The “less than 4%” isn’t going anywhere. We see you. We fight for the kids they’re exploiting. #GenderTrafficking #ProtectKids #TherapyNotIdeology

Good news for the family of Annelise Camp today: A temporary injunction hearing took place today, and the judge ordered the hospital to continue providing Annelise with life-sustaining treatment for another two weeks while efforts continue to secure a transfer. Please keep praying that Annelise can be transferred to a facility which provides the advanced treatments (such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy) her family is seeking. 🙏🙏🙏

Since some new followers have joined us recently, I thought I’d share my personal experience with organ procurement. Back in the late 1980s, during residency training, I came in for night call and was told to go up to ICU and prepare a young man for organ harvesting. I believed my authorities when they told me that the brain dead young man I was to anesthetize for organ procurement was dead. Even though he had a normal blood pressure, heart rate, great oxygen saturation, was warm and with good color, and was making urine. In fact, he was more stable than most other ICU patients I had anesthetized. I was so brainwashed that I wasn’t even going to give him actual anesthesia, just a paralyzing drug and meds to keep his blood pressure and heart rate controlled so as not to damage the organs. But when I presented my anesthetic plan of care to my supervisor, he said I should give a consciousness blocking drug “just in case.” I did as I was told, and the young man responded to surgery just like anyone else, requiring the same types and amounts of anesthesia. When I told this story to a pathologist friend, she said that when she removes organs during an autopsy, she doesn’t need to give any of these drugs. This bothered me enough that eventually I did my own research. I discovered that there have never been any facts, studies, or evidence that these people are dead. Doctors, lawyers, philosophers, and scholars have been debating the veracity of brain death for nearly sixty years in the medical literature, but the public is never told that there is any controversy. I wrote a book, “The Brain Death Fallacy,” and maintain a website Respect for Human Life, to provide fully informed consent for the general public on these issues. The new American Academy of Neurology brain death guideline now explicitly states that brain death can be declared in the presence of ongoing brain function. It has long been known that 20% of people declared BD still have electrical activity on EEG, and over 50% have ongoing function of a part of the brain called the hypothalamus. BUT the Uniform Determination of Death Act stipulates that there be an irreversible cessation of ALL functions of the entire brain for a legal diagnosis of brain death. It is troubling that not only is the brain death concept unproven, but also the way doctors are diagnosing it does not comply with the law. That’s why I do what I can to give the public a place at the table in this debate.

Annalise needs time. @LaraLogan nails it.

#ReleaseAnnelise 💙 Lara Logan joins The Charlie Kirk Show to discuss the ongoing fight for two-year-old Annelise Camp and her family’s efforts to secure continued treatment and a peaceful transfer to a facility willing to give her more time to heal. As Lara explains, Annelise’s parents are not asking anyone to guarantee an outcome. They are simply asking for time. Time for a little girl who suffered a drowning accident on Memorial Day. Time for a child whose family believes she deserves every opportunity to recover. Time for hope. Please join us in praying for: 🙏 Annelise’s healing and recovery 🙏 A peaceful and successful transfer to a new facility 🙏 Wisdom, strength, and courage for her parents and loved ones 🙏 Favor with every doctor, nurse, hospital administrator, attorney, and decision-maker involved No matter where you stand, this is ultimately about a little girl and a family fighting for their daughter. If you would like to support the Camp family during this difficult time: givesendgo.com/annelise-camp… @AndrewKolvet @charliekirk11 @GoingRoguewLara Please pray. Please share. Please stand with Annelise and her family. #PrayForAnnelise #AnneliseCamp #CharlieKirk #LaraLogan

Please join me in praying for little Annelise Camp and her family. After a tragic near-drowning accident, Annelise continues to fight for her life. Her parents are seeking additional treatment options and a transfer of care, believing their daughter deserves every opportunity to heal. Please pray for Annelise’s complete recovery, for wisdom for her medical team, and for a peaceful, safe, and speedy transfer process. Pray for strength, comfort, and courage for the Camp family during this incredibly difficult time. If you would like to support the family and help with their ongoing medical and travel expenses, you can do so here: givesendgo.com/annelise-camp… #PrayForAnnelise #ReleaseAnnelise

TEXAS SENATE RACE: Senator Cornyn just admitted he has been lying to Texans for 24 years. Democrat James Talarico is now copying his playbook, faking opposition to child sex change surgeries after defending them for years. Texas keeps sending liars to Washington. Time to stop. h/t @data_atx

Annelise is still fighting for her life, still has not been moved. Please keep praying. givesendgo.com/annelise-camp…

Michelle, you and AG Paxton are amazing. Thanks for all that you’ve done and are doing.

🚨🚨🚨Please pray for this two-year-old girl. Her parents are fighting tirelessly to prevent the hospital from declaring her brain dead. Despite the dire situation, her heart continues to beat. I firmly believe in the power of prayer and the belief that with God, all things are possible. 🙏🙏 Family fights for 2-year-old girl to not be declared brain dead after near-drowning abc7.com/post/family-fights-…

Texas Children’s Hospital need to be stopped. I can’t count the number of stories that I’ve heard over the years of what TCH has done to try and destroy lives all so that they can harvest more organs to make more money. Laws in Texas and across the United States need to be changed to stop the perverse incentive to extract organs from children that want to live.

This is not even close to being factual. TX Children’s had even stooped to filing a complaint with Child Protective Services because the family wanted to move her. I intervened with the Department of Family Protective Services that oversees CPS. TX Children’s is purposely blocking her transfer.