The Washington Post reports that “a new trend” in organic harvesting is underway within minutes of cardiac arrest. This government sanctioned program euphemistically called, “donation after cardiac death” (DCD) accelerates the organ “donation” process.

“Some doctors and bioethicists, however, say the practice raises the disturbing specter of transplant surgeons preying on dying patients for their organs, possibly pressuring doctors and families to discontinue treatment, adversely affecting donors’ care in their final days and even hastening their deaths.”

“The person is not dead yet,” said Jerry A. Menikoff, an associate professor of law, ethics and medicine at the University of Kansas. “They are going to be dead, but we should be honest and say that we’re starting to remove the organs a few minutes before they meet the legal definition of death.”

https://ahrp.org/us-organ-harvesting-in-not-yet-dead-patients/