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Catholics believe that organ donation is a moral act when carried out with the consent of the donor. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that: [9]. Organ transplants are in conformity with the moral law if the physical and psychological dangers and risks to the donor are proportionate to the good sought for the recipient.
Organs regularly transplanted include lungs, heart, cornea, pancreas, and kidneys. Modes of donation are an altruistic living donation of a non-vital organ (generally a kidney) and post-mortal organ donation (PMOD). PMOD can be subdivided into donation after brain death (DBD) and donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD). [5]
Thus, while the Civil Code seeks to govern all aspects of private law in the Philippines, a Republic Act such as Republic Act No. 9048 would concern itself with a more limited field, as in that case, the correction of entries in the civil registry. Still, the amendment of Philippine legal codes is accomplished through the passage of Republic Acts.
The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin.
Prior to the HOPE Act, it was banned to acquire organs from any potential donor who was known to have, or even suspected to have, HIV. [85] According to UNOS, in the first year of implementation, 19 organs were transplanted under the HOPE Act. [86] Thirteen of those organs transplanted were kidneys and 6 were livers. [86]
For Doty, a cancer survivor whose husband died in April of kidney failure, the weight loss has meant she can be more active with her 6-year-old daughter, Freedom.
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The Philippine Civil Code is strongly influenced by the Spanish Civil Code, which was first enforced in 1889 within the Philippines when it was still a colony of the Spanish Empire. The Código Civil remained in effect even throughout the American Occupation ; by 1940, the Commonwealth Government of President Manuel Luis Quezon formed a ...