Thursday, July 28, 2005
Housecleaning, Part I: New Organ Donor Law In Illinois
Going back through some odds and ends that got drafted but never posted, yet days or weeks later seem just as interesting as when I first encountered them. . . .
Let's start with an AP story reporting on a new Illinois law recently signed by Governor Blagojevich makes a person's decision to become an organ donor binding, even if family members object (Public Act 94-0075). Before this law, a donor's next of kin had to give consent before the organ or tissue was harvested. Last year 30 families overruled a relative's decision to donate an organ or tissue, according to the Elmhurst-based Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network. Currently, Illinois has more than 6 million names on the organ donor registry, the largest in the country. [tm]
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/2005/07/new_organ_donor.html