Deceased baby girl delivered to funeral home without her organs
This horrific experience is unfortunately not unique.
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Heidi Klessig, M.D.
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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American College of Physicians reminds doctors that organ harvesting is not their primary duty
'It is unethical, before the declaration of death, to use any treatments or interventions aimed at preserving organs ... that may harm the still-living patient.'
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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 death’ was invented to harvest more organs
By simply redefining people with severe brain injury as being dead already, the letter of the dead donor rule is met by sleight of hand. But changing a definition does not change reality.
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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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Here’s how organ harvesters get away with making patients ‘brain dead’
First doctors stop your heart, then they clamp off the blood flow to your brain to make you 'brain dead', and then they restart your heart in your own chest to be sure it’s in good shape to put into somebody else.
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Woman kept alive to deliver her baby proves ‘brain death’ is a legal fiction
It is well-established that so-called 'brain dead' mothers can deliver healthy, viable babies.
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My 88-year-old mother has dementia. Caring for her is a privilege, not a burden
With an increasing number of voices promoting physician-assisted death as a means of avoiding advanced dementia, we need to let our elderly family members know that they are valuable and cherished.
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