Kathleen Powderly, CNM, PhD, a medical ethicist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, is available to discuss the case of the woman a Texas judge has ordered be taken off a ventilator and other machines. Dr. Powderly is director of the John Conley Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Powderly has expertise related to both childbirth and end-of-life issues.