Scott Schara

Anyone who has followed the acceleration since 2020 of hospital-perpetrated medical murder is probably familiar with the horrifying story of Wisconsin teen Grace Schara. The 19-year-old died in October 2021—just two months after her joyful baptism—following shocking breaches in the standard of care at Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital.

In 2023, Grace’s father Scott Schara and the family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital and individual providers, alleging medical battery, negligence, and lack of informed consent. Tragically for the family and alarmingly for hospital patients everywhere, the jury sided with the hospital in its June 2025 verdict, signaling—as the Scharas’ lawyer, Warner Mendenhall, summed up—that “When you go into a hospital now … you sign your rights away.”

Dr. Gilbert Berdine, associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, testified as an expert witness for the family—moved to do so though he had never previously served as a medical malpractice witness. Shocked by the hospital’s “egregious” behavior, including three blatant incidents of oversedation, he testified,

“I find it indefensible that this patient was given … very dangerous medications, not theoretically dangerous medications, but medications proved by the medical record to be dangerous … without informed consent. The administration of morphine … to a patient who was unconscious, unresponsive, had lost her blood pressure, had no palpable pulse and whose respiratory pattern was screaming to anybody who would look … is … the worst clinical decision I have ever witnessed in over 46 years of medical practice.”

Three days before his daughter’s death, the hospital sicced an armed guard on Scott Schara, forcibly evicting him for trying to advocate on her behalf to get her fed. Berdine testified that the illegitimate eviction denied Grace the opportunity to have a caring advocate by her bedside and had a “tangible, negative impact on her health,” including making feeding “impractical because there was nobody who had the time to do it.”

In an August 2023 interview with The Defender, Scott Schara shared his belief that “Grace was targeted due to her unvaccinated status, her Down syndrome and other characteristics” such as the family’s deep Christian faith. He noted, “In the 22 doctors’ reports that were written during the seven days Grace was in the hospital, they referenced 36 times that Grace had Down syndrome.” He described being “sickened” by government documents he later unearthed, which imply that those with Down syndrome are a burden to their families and that “physicians should come in on a white horse and ‘save’ the families from this burden.”

Since Grace’s death, Schara has conducted thousands of hours of research on medical murder, becoming a fierce advocate for its victims and launching a comprehensive website, Our Amazing Grace, as well as the blog, Deprogramming with Grace’s Dad. Backed by his strong faith, his website describes the propagandistic talking point that “people are too expensive” as “Satan’s Big Lie.”

We share the family’s heartbreak at the jury’s foolish decision. Schara, for his part, hopes that the public will pay attention to the trial’s troubling take-home message:

“The jury ruled that no consent is required in a hospital and a doctor can unilaterally place a DNR [do not resuscitate] on a patient, without consent, without a witness, without a signature, and without a bracelet. This should scare anyone with ears to hear.”