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A recommitment to the foundational moral and ethical principle that all life is sacred, at every stage, is needed.
Affirmations of the sanctity of human life from a U.S. bureaucracy certainly aren’t an everyday occurrence, so it was notable on July 21 when Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did precisely that in sharing the disturbing findings of a federal investigation into the operating practices of a federally funded organ-procurement organization.
The investigation by the HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration examined 351 patients for whom organ donation was authorized, but not completed, in accordance with currently accepted U.S. standards for brain death.
Almost one-third of these cases showed “concerning features, including 73 patients with neurological signs incompatible with organ donation.” Additionally, at least 28 of the patients “may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated.”
In other words, almost 10% of the patients showed clear signs of life, yet the removal of their organs was authorized by the local bureaucratic medical authority. Kennedy rightly described this as “horrifying.”
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Affirmations of the sanctity of human life from a U.S. bureaucracy certainly aren’t an everyday occurrence, so it was notable on July 21 when Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did precisely that in sharing the disturbing findings of a federal investigation into the operating practices of a federally funded organ-procurement organization.
The investigation by the HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration examined 351 patients for whom organ donation was authorized, but not completed, in accordance with currently accepted U.S. standards for brain death.
Almost one-third of these cases showed “concerning features, including 73 patients with neurological signs incompatible with organ donation.” Additionally, at least 28 of the patients “may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated.”
In other words, almost 10% of the patients showed clear signs of life, yet the removal of their organs was authorized by the local bureaucratic medical authority. Kennedy rightly described this as “horrifying.”
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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.
