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Would I Receive an Organ Transplant? – Commentary
By Heidi Klessig, M.D.
Would I ever receive an organ transplant?
I have often addressed this question in my lectures and videos on the ethics of...
Organ Transplantation Up 11 Percent
“The numbers don’t provide a complete picture if all we know is the number of transplants is up. That’s fine but says nothing of how well potential donors are being used.”
Stop, Don’t Take My Organs – Book Review
Harvesting organs and the ethical questions it raises.
Review of The Brain Death Fallacy, Heidi Klessig, M.D. (Good Samaritan Books), 2023, 178 pages, ISBN 9798863485003...
Patients Lose Life to Donate Organs
News articles of deaths from tragic circumstances recently have mentioned how the victims became organ donors.
Patients must exhibit signs of life for hospitals to...
Procedure to Harvest Live Organs Raises Red Flags
“I really believe if we hadn’t been pouring all our time, money, and research dollars into the current unethical system, I think we would have found better solutions for people, such as augmenting the heart or providing an artificial one."
Doctors Have a Macabre Way of Harvesting Organs – Commentary
It is critical that patients receive a full explanation of the many ethical questions involved in organ harvesting before giving their informed consent.
Congress Considers Bill to Outlaw Denial of Transplants to Unvaccinated
“There is no science. What would be needed is a study of transplant outcomes in vaccinated versus unvaccinated— likely impossible to do.”
Fetal Tissue Experiments Under Federal Investigation
The alleged illegal harvesting of body parts from late-term aborted babies at the University of Pittsburgh (UP) is at the center of a two-year-old...
Law Commission Tables Decision to Expand Clinical Death Definition
The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has postponed indefinitely an effort to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act (rUDDA) to give hospitals and doctors...
Redefining Definition of Clinical Death Under Consideration
An influential organization is considering a revised definition of clinical death that could make it easier to declare a patient dead.
A group within the...
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