Organ donation: An opt-out policy?
By Cara Matthews, Gannett Albany Bureau
ALBANY — A suburban New York assemblyman whose daughter is a two-time kidney transplant recipient wants to flip New York's organ-donation system on its head by presuming people are donors unless they indicate otherwise.
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky's proposal would require that people automatically be added to the state donor registry unless they opt out of being a donor when they get a driver's license or state identification card. Other states, including Delaware and Pennsylvania, have made similar proposals, but none passed.
"What I've said to anybody, whether they like it or they don't like it, we can't sustain the current system," said Brodsky, a Democrat from Greenburgh in New York's Westchester County.
He and other advocates of the "presumed consent" donor system believe it could help increase organ and tissue donations.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-29-organ-donors_N.htm
A two-time recipient?
Anyway, what does everyone think of such a proposal? For or against?