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"I don't know how you can ever have a patient that meets the criteria for irreversible loss of function, and then reverse that function in someone else," said Veatch. Using other organs after cardiac death is possible, he said, but if surgeons are declaring someone dead because their heart has stopped, then under the current law, that heart shouldn't able to be used in someone else, no matter how long surgeons wait.

They see these babies as spare parts, NOT human beings.

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because as many as one in four babies awaiting a heart transplant dies while on the waiting list, according to the study.
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I wonder how many babies who receive a heart transplant live five years? How many make it this far even if the donor baby did not have cardiac death.

I wonder how many make it to one year after they receive the transplant?

By the way, a dear friend of mine had a baby with serious heart defects. The little boy died at 2 months before he could get a heart transplant. The couple then had 2 more children. One needed heart surgery at the age of 5 and is doing well.

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Veatch said, ideally, people would have a choice when they decide to become organ donors, and that choice would include organ donation after whole brain death, organ donation if you've suffered a permanent loss of consciousness, and cardiac death. Currently, organs are only harvested after whole brain death or cardiac death, according to Veatch, and he added that only New Jersey offers organ donors a choice with these options. But, he said he believes that many people, if offered the choice, would choose to have their organs donated if it was determined that they were in a persistive vegetative state.

This doctor would have "harvested" Terri Shiavo without going to all the bother of dehydrating her to death.

[Gene Eric]

In the age of moral relativism, I fear the medical community is too willing to embrace the dark sciences for whatever reasons justify the outcome.