by Sharon Rondeau
(Nov. 4, 2025) — 10:23 a.m. EST – Dr. Naomi Wolf is currently interviewing Scott Schara, father of 19-year-old Grace Schara, who had special needs and died in a Wisconsin hospital in October 2021 ostensibly from COVID-19 complications.
Since her death more than four years ago, Schara has claimed Grace was “medically murdered” by Ascension Health through overmedication and a false DNR placed in her file without his knowledge or consent.
He filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 2023, but in June the jury acquitted defendants Ascension and several of its employees.
Schara’s attorney was Warner Mendenhall of the Mendenhall Law Group, a frequent guest in health-freedom discussions.
On Monday, Schara announced via a Substack newsletter that he has filed a motion for a new trial, claiming, in part:
The verdict on June 19 was in favor of the medical industrial establishment. Did the jury get it wrong? Juries get things wrong every day.
The defense, through their “experts,” said that by being in a hospital, you are giving implied consent, and that the drugs that euthanized Grace were normal in an ICU, so no informed consent is necessary. Doctors informing the family is not even necessary for the two prior overdoses; the third overdose is what killed Grace. Finally, their experts stated that a DNI (Do Not Intubate) = DNR (Do Not Resuscitate), and a doctor can unilaterally place a DNR on a patient, without consent, without a witness, without a signature, and without a DNR bracelet. The jury sided with the defense. My wife, our daughter Jessica, and I had legal power of attorney, which is an invention in their legal system, but this didn’t matter to the jury.
Last week, I filed a motion for a new trial. The motion rebukes the injustice of the court.
He took the case to trial in June but a jury overwhelmingly sided with the hospital, which claimed it
A Christian-oriented broadcast host on “Deprogramming with Grace’s Dad,” Schara has interviewed other parents who lost their children claiming medical malpractice.
Schara claims Grace was overmedicated and that a DNR order was placed in her file without his knowledge or consent.
His conversation with Wolf touched on organ donation, the “implied consent” the trial judge alleged existed since Grace was in the hospital and a consent document Schara claimed was “fraudulent,” and the potential, as Wolf described it, for “turning hospitals into killing fields.”