Stop Harvesting Organs after ‘Cardiac Death,’ Say MDs
Wednesday September 15, 2010 Stop Harvesting Organs after ‘Cardiac Death,’ Say MDs By Patrick B. Craine CALGARY, Alberta, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of doctors have called on the medical community to cease harvesting organs from patients whose hearts have stopped pulsating, saying that doctors are misleading families to believe that the patient has died when in fact their loved one is still alive. The story was featured Wednesday on the cover of Canada’s National Post. “A longstanding tenet of ethical organ donation [is] that the nonliving donor must be irreversibly dead at the time of donation,” explain […]
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