Watch SPUC's Anthony Ozimic highlight the dangers of an opt-out organ donation system

Various governments around the world, including in the UK, have in recent years considered moving to a system of presumed consent to organ donation, also known as an opt-out system. Under such a system, when people die doctors would be free to remove their organs, unless the person had opted-out by having made clear (e.g. in a legal document, patient register etc.) that they refuse consent to organ removal. There are significant ethical problems and dangers in such a system, which Anthony Ozimic, SPUC's communications manager, highlights in this thought-piece (video) broadcast last night on Channel Four as part of its series 4thought.tv You may like to support Anthony by leaving a comment on the webpage below the video. You can find arguments for your comment in my following blog-posts:

• Report on transplants rings alarm bells
• Ethicists (sic) propose killing patients for their organs
  
• Welsh assembly reluctance over organ donation consent
• Serious concerns over organ donation
• Proposal to widen a patient’s “best interests…beyond the purely medical”
• Not obeying unjust laws and policies is an essential part of pro-life witness

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