Move Could Help Allay Transplant Organ Shortage; Some Ethicists Wary of Plan
New York City officials plan within months to dispatch the nation's first ambulance equipped to preserve bodies of the newly dead so that families have time to consider organ donation.
The controversial twist: Crews would swoop in and perform procedures on a corpse without consent in order to preserve the organs until the family had time to give consent for organ donation. No organs would be taken without consent.
The proposal for the Rapid Organ Recovery Ambulance followed complaints from... Full Story
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