U.K. Plans Change in Organ Donor Laws To Save Lives

Britain, as everywhere else in the world, has a shortage of organ donors and the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown is seeking a change in the law to end this shortage. The change seeks to give doctors in the U.K. the right to harvest organs from the dead without permission. The way it is legally planning to do this is by changing the current law which states that organs can only be harvested if the deceased carried an organ donor card, to a law which states that a person must expressly indicate before death that they do not wish to donate any of their organs. There are over 7000 individuals in England currently waiting for organs for transplantation. This change in the law if executed could bring new hope to them but the change is not without controversy.