A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Dying Donors at Risk

Now is the Time to End Organ Harvesting From “Dead” Donors

(By Dr. Joseph M. Eble/Catholic World) – A recent article in The New York Times (NYT) titled “A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk” uncovered that 55 medical workers in 19 states “had witnessed at least one disturbing case of donation” using an organ harvesting technique called “donation after circulatory death” (DCD). The article highlighted multiple cases of organ retrieval either beginning or nearly beginning on living …

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Dying Donors at Risk

Last spring at a small Alabama hospital, a team of transplant surgeons prepared to cut into Misty Hawkins. The clock was ticking. Her organs wouldn’t be usable for much longer. Days earlier, she had been a vibrant 42-year-old with a playful sense of humor and a love for the Thunder Beach Motorcycle Rally. But after Hawkins choked while eating and fell into a coma, her mother decided to take her off life support and donate her organs. She was rem…