There is a widespread consensus in medicine on the definition of death, and those standards have been codified into laws in nearly every U.S. state.
There’s no such medical consensus on the answer to another big question: When does human life begin? With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, that question has big implications for health care.
“There has not been the same effort to really define what constitutes the beginning of life,” said KHN senior correspondent Sarah Varney.
