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Organ donation has the potential to greatly improve quality of life as well as prevent death in patients with end-stage organ failure. There is an endemic shortage of organ donors within the United States, resulting in an immediate and persistent need for additional, suitable organ donors. Death row inmates are a possible source of additional ...
The two Democratic state legislators who sponsored the bill say it would help expand the pool of organ donation. Nearly every 10 minutes, another person is added to the transplant list.
In response to a 2014 resolution on organ harvesting by the U.S. House of Representatives, a Chinese embassy spokesperson said that China requires written consent from organ donors, and declared that "the so-called organ harvesting from death-row prisoners is totally a lie fabricated by Falun Gong".
In the U.S. last year, doctors performed more than 42,800 organ transplants. But there are still over 100,000 people waiting for lifesaving donations. In the U.S. last year, doctors performed more ...
The condemned prisoners have been described as "not a proper source for organ transplants" by Vice-Health Minister Huang Jiefu, [14] and in March 2010, he announced the trial of China's first organ donation program starting after death, jointly run by the Red Cross Society and the Ministry of Health, in 10 pilot regions.
Witnessing the power of donation firsthand has inspired many of our family members to register as organ donors as well. My son saved four lives through organ donation. Each April we honor his life ...
In 2011, Christian Longo founded Gifts of Anatomical Value from Everyone (GAVE), which advocates for death row prisoners being allowed to donate their organs. Currently, most death row prisoners are denied requests to donate their organs because infectious diseases within American prisons occur at higher levels than the general population, such ...
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