ARGUMENTS FOR:
More than 8,000 people in the UK need a transplant, but a shortage of donors means that fewer than 3,000 transplants are carried out annually.
Advances in medical science mean that the number of people whose lives could be saved by a transplant is rising more rapidly than the number
of willing donors.
The law as it stands condemns many, some of them children, to an unnecessary death, simply because of the shortage of willing donors while,
as the BMA puts it, 'bodies are buried or cremated complete with organs that could have been used to save lives'.
Doctors and surgeons can be trusted not to abuse the licence which a change of the law would grant them.
Objections to a change in the law are sheer sentimentality. A dead body is an inanimate object, incapable of feeling.
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