Organ donation industry’s redefinitions of death threaten living people
Playing fast and loose with the definitions of death for the sake of organ donation must stop.
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Articles tagged organ donors
‘Brain dead’ people are being used as lab rats for gene-edited animal organ transplants
A Chinese man declared ‘brain dead’ was used to transplant a lung from a gene-edited pig and died after nine days. Similar unethical and disturbing experiments have taken place in the US.
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Ireland is automatically putting adults on the organ donor list: ‘Perilous path’
A Irish new law, which is referred to as a ‘soft opt-out organ donation system,’ includes every citizen over the age of 18 on the organ donor list without their permission.
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Trump HHS finds patients are being taken for organ retrieval while still alive
RFK Jr.’s HHS has launched a ‘major initiative’ to reform the organ transplant system after an investigation found multiple patients who were not dead were taken for organ procurement.
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The case of Zack Dunlap shows the incoherence of ‘brain death’
The case of Zack Dunlap, who made a full recovery after being declared ‘brain dead’ and whose organs were nearly harvested, illustrates the extreme consequences of the American Academy of Neurology’s incoherent guideline on ‘brain death.’
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Bioethics group admits most people declared ‘brain dead’ actually have brain function
The National Catholic Bioethics Center, a longtime supporter of ‘brain death,’ finally admitted that many so-called ‘brain dead’ people still have neuroendocrine function, though its defense of vulnerable patients doesn’t go nearly far enough.
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