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Camp Family Rejects Brain-Death Test for Unconscious Toddler

7/27/2026

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The Camp family is refusing the brain-death test needed to declare 2-year-old Annelise Camp dead after she was found unconscious in a Texas pool on Memorial Day.
Paramedics performed CPR, achieving a faint heartbeat but no detectable pulse.
Hospital staff placed Camp on a ventilator, with doctors saying she appears brain-dead.
Right-to-life activists and some religious groups argue that a beating heart means she remains alive.

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The Camp family is refusing the brain-death test needed to declare 2-year-old Annelise Camp dead after she was found unconscious in a Texas pool on Memorial Day.
Paramedics performed CPR, achieving a faint heartbeat but no detectable pulse.
Hospital staff placed Camp on a ventilator, with doctors saying she appears brain-dead.
Right-to-life activists and some religious groups argue that a beating heart means she remains alive.