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 transplant
Hospitals are using ‘circulatory death’ to harvest organs of living people
It is long past time for complete transparency about organ procurement practices, and for mandating fully informed consent when people register to become organ donors.
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‘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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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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Mayo Clinic denies lung transplant to YouTuber’s mother unless she takes COVID shots
YouTuber Toby Turner’s family is looking for another hospital to perform a lung transplant after the Mayo Clinic said his mother would need ‘full vaccination’ for COVID before even being considered.
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‘Brain death’ is a fallacy used to prop up the organ harvesting industry
The concept of ‘brain death’ is factually baseless, but powerful medical organizations like the American Academy of Neurology are imposing it on America, threatening the lives of brain-injured people.
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Why you should think twice about signing up to donate your organs
Using the controversial NRP-cDCD method, doctors are able to harvest patients’ organs after removing life support and while the patient is considered ‘brain-dead,’ despite the potential for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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American surgeon suggests harvesting kidneys from terminal newborn babies
Newborn babies represent 'huge untapped pool' of organs, says California surgeon Dr. Dai Nghiem.
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Ontario woman asked to donate husband’s organs after he was denied transplant for being unvaccinated
35-year-old Garnet Harper died after hospitals refused to perform a life-saving kidney transplant on him because he did not take the experimental COVID-19 shots.
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Unvaccinated Canadian approved for organ transplant in US after she was rejected in her home country
The family of Sheila Annette Lewis is facing a huge hospital bill after a procedure that could save her life.
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