4 doctors agreed: Frequent: After such a life threatening event, it is not unusual to have complications, and renal failure needing dialysis as well as pneumonia from a prolonged intubation are actually quite common in this traumatic setting. ...Read more. See 1 more doctor answer.
Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA). So-called Defense of Marriage laws (DOMAs) define marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman, for the purpose of excluding same-sex couples from the institution of marriage. There are two types of DOMAs: federal and state.he federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was enacted so that the federal government could restrict marriage to a union between a man and a woman. In so doing, the federal government was able to deny same-sex married couples any of the federal benefits opposite-sex married couples received.
A bill â H.R. 3355, the Homeownersâ Defense Act of 2007 â recently was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Ron Klein (D-Fla.) and Tim Mahoney (D-Fla.), directed at providing relief from and planning for natural disasters through the use of state run catastrophe pools and private market mechanisms.