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Controversial Doctors’ Radical Plan to Tackle Organ Shortage: Patients Could be Kept Alive to Become Donors and Hearts Retrieved from Newborn Babies in BMA Proposals

Comment: Note that some of these radical organ donation proposals are already happening in the US, according to this article. N Valko RN A BMA report has revived the debate about how far doctors should go to help save the lives of patients with organ failure. Patients...

More Hospitals & Governments Push for Organ Transplants 5 Minutes or Less After Heart Stops

A growing push has arisen from the medical community to increase the number of available human transplant organs by removing organs from non-brain-dead organ donors who experience “cardiac death” (CD) or 5 minutes of cardiac arrest. A recent article in the New...

Today’s ‘Palliative Care’ Disrespects the Natural Law

The natural law tells us that, in the context of health care, 1) food and water are basic treatment and care, and should not be withdrawn lightly; 2) morphine must not be used aggressively to hasten death when a patient is not near the time of death; and 3) pain...

Patients Supposedly in Vegetative/PVS State “Not Just Aware But Paying Attention”

We have written dozens of stories the common theme of which is that patients diagnosed in a “persistent vegetative state” or “minimally conscious” are either (a) misdiagnosed or (b) much more aware than they are given credit for....

Waking the Dead – One Day, 'Deep Coma' Victims Will be Able to Talk and Move Around (Sept 2010)

Waking the Dead – One Day, 'Deep Coma' Victims Will be Able to Talk and Move Around Patients thought to be in a "persistent vegetative" state after suffering devastating brain damage could soon be able to "talk" and even steer a...

Link: Euthanasia Society of America and National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (2011)

The Link Between the Euthanasia Society of America and the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization   The National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization is indisputably the successor organization of the Euthanasia Society of America. A new...

Melbourne Doctor: Most Donors Still Alive when Organs are Removed (10/08)

A prominent Melbourne doctor has written that, contrary to popular belief, most organ donations take place before the donor is actually dead. He argues that the vague criterion of "brain death" has blinded potential donors to the fact that their organs are...

Oxford Neonatologist: Time Has Come to Consider “Mandatory Organ Donation” (10/08)

Oxford Neonatologist Says Time Has Come to Consider “Mandatory Organ Donation” Also suggests that “donor death” criteria for organ donation should be abandoned   According to Dr. Julian Savulescu, the Uehiro Chair of Practical Ethics at...

Poll: Americans Becoming More Opposed to Euthanasia, Worry About Elderly (2/10)

Poll: Americans Becoming More Opposed to Euthanasia, Worry About Elderly A new national poll finds Americans are largely split on the idea of legalizing euthanasia, but the opposition to the practice is growing. The new survey from Angus Reid Public Opinion, a...

Commentary: ‘Cardiac Death’ Allows One to Kill the Organ Donor (7/09)

Commentary: ‘Cardiac Death’ Allows One to Kill the Organ Donor Analysis by Dr. John Shea MD FRCP(C), Medical Advisor to LifeSiteNews.com   In 2006, research done by Dr. Gerald Buckberg, a cardio-thoracic surgeon and UCLA expert, demonstrated that a...

Governor Jeb Bush Signed Bill Allowing Stillborn Children Birth Certificates (2006)

Parents of stillborn children will be able to get a certificate of the child's birth under a bill Gov. Jeb Bush signed (2006). Florida is now the 14th state to offer certificates of stillbirths to mothers who carry their children at least 20 weeks and deliver...

U.K. Prime Minister to Press Ahead on Presumed Consent Organ Donation (11/08)

 Despite his own task force having said that it will not succeed, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he will not give up on a plan that would see every person in the UK automatically registered as an organ donor. Brown said of the task force and his plan,...

Government-Funded National Health Care: Is This Really What We Want? (2008)

Comment:  It’s truly mystifying that this media outlet can publish an article like this clearly highlighting one of the problems of government-funded healthcare in another country, but refuse to see what is coming down the pike for Americans if...