Three major Catholic organizations and one of the largest physician organizations in the United States are warning the American public about a national proposal to redefine what constitutes being legally dead and its implications for card-carrying organ donors and the transplant industry. The Uniform Law Commission (ULC), an influential national organization that recommends legislation to…
Group Wants to Unstiffen Laws That Define Who Is Considered Legally Dead
China Includes Hong Kong in the Organ Transplant Network, Leading to Nearly 6,000 Hong Kong Citizens to Cancel Organ Donations
As China and Hong Kong actively explore establishing a permanent organ transplantation cooperation mechanism, nearly 6,000 Hong Kong citizens canceled organ donations from December 2022 to April 2023, much more than before. In December last year, the Secretary of Health, Lo Chung-mau, expressed his hope to integrate Hong Kong hospitals into the mainland’s “China Organ Transplant…
Canada Provides More Organs From Assisted Suicide Recipients for Transplant Than Any Other Country
Canadian patients who opt for euthanasia provide more transplant organs than any other country globally that allows physician-assisted suicide, according to the first international review of medical assistance in dying (MAID). Patients in Canada who decide to end their lives with physician help also contributed to almost half of the world’s documented organ transplants occurring…
Don’t Let Doctors Kill Sick Patients for Their Organs
Commentary Because of long transplant waiting lists, the bioethics and medical establishments are bent on increasing the source of organs. It has gotten so bad that some of the most influential policy advocates in bioethics now urge that doctors be allowed to do what was once considered unthinkable—kill would-be donors for their organs. Harvesting vital…
Anne Heche Is ‘Brain Dead,’ but Remains on Life Support for Organ Donation
August 12, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor said Friday. Under current California law, death can be determined by the loss of all brain function and in accordance with accepted medical standards. While Heche is…
Senate Committee Investigation Finds US Organ Transplant Network Failing, Endangering Lives
Dozens of deaths and illnesses in the United States among individuals who either received or were in need of organ transplants were caused by a lack of oversight from the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS), according to a Senate Finance Committee investigation report released on Aug. 3. The Senate report (pdf) examined 1,118 complaints filed from 2010…
Do You Have a Donor Card?
When I was a young adult driving in California, I rarely gave my donor card a thought. Back then, it was just another small piece of paper in my wallet. In those days, the confidence and optimism of youth crowded out any serious thoughts about real-life accidents, illness or disease. But now, decades (and decades…
Organ Donation Worker Exposes China’s Money-Driven Transplant Industry
May 18, 2021
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In China, state-run media have been promoting a job called “organ donation coordinators,” trumpeting how people in this line of work are making a difference in society. Their role is to convince families of dying patients to agree to donate their loved one’s organs—needed to supply China’s booming transplant industry. The families that agree, in…
China Insider: China Proposes Organ Donation Assessment Policy
March 10, 2021
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Chen Jingyu, a leading lung transplant surgeon in China, proposed at Beijing’s Two Sessions meeting that organ donations should be one of the indexes to assess Chinese cities.
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