Push resumes to make organ donation automatic, unless driver opts out Katherine Gregg, The Providence Journal
PROVIDENCE Has anything changed in nearly four decades that would compel Rhode Island lawmakers to pass legislation debated in the state since the early 1980s to make anatomical organ donation automatic unless a driver opts out ?
The proposals reappear at the State House every few years amid concerns that there are simply not enough organs to meet the need. The irony is that every year [tens of thousands of] Americans die from brain injury, brain tumor or stroke conditions that make their kidneys suitable for transplant. But most of those kidneys are never offered, The Journal wrote in 1983.
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