Pope Leo Praises Organ Donation, Warns About Commodification of the Body
The audience with participants in an event organized by the Italian National Transplant Network took place March 26 at the Vatican.
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Experts Warn That Organ Donation Could Help Drive High Assisted Suicide Rates in Canada
A 2022 study in the American Journal of Transplantation found that nearly half of euthanasia victims in the survey who donated organs came from Canada.
Ethicists Warn About the Dangers of Linking Assisted Suicide to Organ Donation
Medically assisted suicide is gaining a foothold in the U.S. at a time when the current organ-donation system in the United States is on the defensive in the wake of published reports of abuses.
RFK Jr. Affirms Human Life Is Sacred
EDITORIAL: A recommitment to the foundational moral and ethical principle that all life is sacred, at every stage, is needed.
HHS Investigation Exposes ‘Horrifying’ Ethical Failures in Organ Transplant System
Most disturbingly, at least 28 patients may not have been deceased when organ procurement began.
Can Catholics Donate Their Organs? Here’s What the Church Says
The Catholic Church states that organ donation is an acceptable and even morally laudable practice.
Opinion: Catholics Should Not Be ‘Brain Death’ Organ Donors
COMMENTARY: The April 11 statement by The National Catholic Bioethics Center affirms that ‘a partial brain death standard can never be acceptable to Catholics.’
What Every Catholic Should Really Know About Brain Death
COMMENTARY: It is vitally important for scholars to continue deliberating the validity of the neurological criterion to inform the Catholic magisterium’s discernment of whether what they learn of brain death continues to cohere with the Church’s traditional understanding of the nature of the human person.
Poor Clare Nuns Witness to ‘Everyday Heroism’ of Living Organ Donors
One gave a kidney, while the other received the necessary body part.
Brain Death: What Catholics Need to Know
COMMENTARY: People of good will in and out of the medical community should support medical research seeking innovative, morally uncontentious ways to replace failing organs.
