British PM Opens Debate On Presumed Consent Organ Donation

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday that the UK’s organ donor system is in need of an overhaul, and introduced the idea that perhaps it should be based on presumed consent, where everyone is automatically a donor, and when they die their organs are presumed to be available for donation, unless they opted out while still alive.

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Filed under: Transplants on January 29th, 2008