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Doctors: Patients Don’t Need to be Dead Before We Harvest Their Organs
Sunday, October 20, 2013 12:28
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The attacks on the dead donor rule–which requires death as a precondition of donating vital organs–are continuing in the world’s most prestigious medical and bioethical journals.
Take the New England Journal of Medicine, which has just published opposing articles about the issue.
Accordingly, patients should be permitted to donate vital organs except in circumstances in which doing so would harm them; and they would not be harmed when their death was imminent owing to a decision to stop life support. That patients be dead before their organs are recovered is not a foundational ethical requirement. Rather, by blocking reasonable requests from patients and families to donate, the DDR both infringes donor autonomy and unnecessarily limits the number and quality of transplantable organs.
Except: Not all patients who have life support removed, with the expectation that they will die, actually expire. And you can’t necessarily tell which-is-which ahead of time.
So, the authors would certainly seem to be arguing that we legalize murder for organs …. http://www.lifenews.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2013/10/doctors-patients-dont-need-to-be-dead.html
