Friday, September 14, 2018

#GERMANY: Health Minister Wants People To Have To "Opt Out" Of Donating Their Organs

[world politics news]


Health Minister Jens Spahn believes Germany should change its laws on organ donation, adopting an "opt-out" plan to increase the number of organs available for transplantation. A double opt-out solution," Spahn believes, is the only way to make organ donation "the norm." Spahn admitted that a new law of this kind would represent an intrusion by the state "into the freedom of the individual." But he argued that all previous attempts at a political level to increase the declining number of organ donors had "unfortunately been without success."

[FULL STORY HERE]

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