Paul was married to Shirley for forty-eight years until she entered her eternal reward on Christmas 2005. They are the proud parents of twelve children and grandparents of twenty-six grandchildren.
Dr. Byrne spends many spare waking moments in defense of those unable to communicate on their own behalf. He is available for speaking engagements and radio and television interviews at a very minimal, or donations only, cost to audiences and organizations around the country. This is a topic that the general public must continuously be made aware of before it happens to them.
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Dr. Paul A. Byrne is a neonatologist and a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics. He is past President of the Catholic Medical Association. He is the producer of the film Continuum of Life and the author of Life, Life Support and Death, Beyond Brain Death, and Brain Death is Not Death. Dr. Byrne has presented testimony on life-death issues to nine state legislatures beginning in 1967. He opposed Dr. Jack Kevorkian on Cross-Fire, and has appeared on Good Morning America, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary, “Are the donors really dead?”, and public Television in Japan. He is the author of many articles in medical and law journals and the lay press.
Watch this impressive youtube introduction of Dr. Byrne
Life Guardian Foundation Website: http://www.lifeguardianfoundation.org/
American Life League Website: www.all.org
Renew America Website: www.renewamerica.com
ARTICLES
Facts about being an organ donor.
Do your organs belong to the government?
Catholic teaching on death and organ transplantation.
Why are Pastoral Care Workers ignorant of the realities of "brain death"?
Additional articles by Dr. Byrne
BRAIN DEATH IS NOT DEATH COLLEGIAL ESSAY
AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH DR. PAUL BYRNE
New England Journal of Medicine: ‘Brain Death’ is not Death - Organ Donors are Alive
Did Hospital Kill Teen For His Organs
