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The website of the Presumed Consent Foundation, Inc. - a non-profit, tax exempt, membership-based organization which seeks to overcome the shortfall of donated organs by ongoing programs of public and professional education and by changing the organ donation system in the U.S. to Presumed Consent ... All rights reserved.
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www.presumedconsent.org/solutions.htm
www.presumedconsent.org/solutions.htm
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The difference between explicit and presumed consent is that under presumed consent, many more people “choose” to be organ donors. Sunstein and Thaler noted that in a 2003 study only 42 percent of people actively chose to be organ donors, while only 18 percent actively opted out when their consent was presumed.
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www.cnsnews.com/news/article/53534
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The Los Angeles Times on Monday examined the policy of presumed consent for organ donation. Under presumed consent -- a policy used in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, S ... Under presumed consent -- a policy used in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and other...
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www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/29911.php
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday that the UK's organ donor system is in need of an overhaul, and introduced the idea that perhaps it should be based on presumed consent, where everyone is automatically a donor, and when they die their organs are presumed to be available...
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www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/93864.php
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In the light of the recommendation from the Organ Donation Task Force to reject the idea of ‘presumed consent’ – meaning that unless people opted out of the register or family members objected, hospitals would be allowed to use their organs ... NEW POLL: is presumed consent the right way to boost organ donations?
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www.libdemvoice.org/ldv-readers-say-narrow-yes-to-presu...
www.libdemvoice.org/ldv-readers-say-narrow-yes-to-presumed-consent-for-organ-donations-6262.html
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Lib Dem MP Dr Evan Harris, chair of All-Party Kidney Group and member of the British Medical Association’s Medical Ethics Committee, has previously lent his support to the idea of presumed consent:
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www.libdemvoice.org/new-poll-is-presumed-consent-the-ri...
www.libdemvoice.org/new-poll-is-presumed-consent-the-right-way-to-boost-organ-donations-5980.html
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I have been trying, since my transplant, to find a way of changing America's organ donor system to one of Presumed Consent. Well, you would have thought that Presumed Consent was akin to the biggest blasphemy known to civilization.
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www.natap.org/2002/Oct/102102_1.htm
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Doctors don't want to be seen as "organ-seizing ghouls," an expert panel looking at ways to boost organ donations says in rejecting a push for a "presumed consent" law. ... Under a presumed consent law, organs and tissues would be harvested from the deceased unless they have expressly forbidden it.
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www.thestar.com/News/article/205352
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And you don't have to be a crazed gun-toting rightwing libertarian to feel queasy about the idea of the state 'presuming consent' and the extension of its power that this implies. It is a notion that has sinister historical precedents and I don't think Justin has considered the implications of what he is accepting here.
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modies.blogspot.com/2008/01/harvesting-organs-and-presu...
modies.blogspot.com/2008/01/harvesting-organs-and-presumed-consent.html
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