Saviour Siblings

At the age of 18 I think that everyone should be offered the chance to become an organ donor instead of at 16 being asked for their drivers license. People should not be forced to allow doctors to harvest their organs from their deceased bodies, but if they are okay with that they can go ahead. To be blunt, I think the world is overpopulated and the Darwanian evolution theories phrase, “Survival of the Fittest” deffinetly applies to this topic. Advances in human science are fantastic and I think that if we can help someone we should, but if someone is not comfortable with sharing their organs because of either religous of personal views they should not be forced to.

A few see that sixteen and seventeen year olds should not make medical decisions on their own because they might not be responsible enough. Although, when sixteen and seventeen year olds go and get their driver license, they have to make an agreement on whether or not they want to become an organ donor. They get to make a medical choice at that age, why can’t they make other decisions for themselves?

What are the legal and ethical implications if the patient is a minor and the parents refuse blood?

They will vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ for mature minor using the provided background information on the teen. If they feel the teen is ready to decide some of their health decisions, then that teen will become a mature minor. The reason for the bold-faced ‘some’ is because teens should not be given the opportunity to refuse treatment in cases where the teen has a high chance of surviving the illness with it. No minor should ‘throw away’ their life by being given the ability to refuse treatment in which the decision is predictably fatal. This would be a restriction to the mature minor

A saviour sibling is a child that is born in order to provide their older sibling with a cell or less commonly an organ transplant. Their older sibling is usually affected by a fatal hereditary disease. Through IVF, a specific embryo is selected to be both a match to the sick child and to be free of the original disease affecting the older child. When this child is born the umbilical cord blood is then transplanted to the older sibling [2]. Although there are few real life cases of saviour siblings being born, (only 12 licenses have been given by the HFEA to create a saviour sibling in the UK) the justifiability of saviour siblings is most certainly important, as they are another step down the slippery slope of designer babies.

In the case of a minor unable to consent or make decisions (due to a mental condition or conscious state) and the absence of parents or legal guardians, two medical doctor must make all medical decisions on his behalf including cardio pulmonary resuscitation and termination of life support.

So they’re is defiantly a need for donors. People can become a donor if they are over 18 years old, if under 18 they must have parent consent. All they need to do is enroll in that states donor registry. It is also wise to also let your family and those close to you know that organ donation is something you would like to do. Even though donor cards are legally binding, most places still ask the family for permission. If a person doesn’t tell anyone that they want to donate the decision to donate may not be followed. If they don’t know then you put them in a position where they have to guess if that is what you wanted or not. Bottom line knowing your wishes makes it easier for your family to give them permission for organ

It is more common for parents to give consent to hospitals to perform lifesaving operations on children, but some parents will resort to a deep belief in a religious miracle. Parents have no right, based on their religion to choose or to refuse medical treatment for their children. In no way is it right for a developing child to be subjected to the opinions of his parents when his life is at risk.

Also, another circumstance where consent is not required when there is no authorized person available to make a surrogate consent. In addition, children, does not have the capacity to make a decision, in this situation the parents or legal guardian can provide informed permission. In some circumstances the parents might refuse to treat or transport the child to the hospital, in this situation the EMS providers should not be aggressive with the

In recent years, the controversy of parental rights in the refusal and consent to medical treatment for their child is at the forefront. It is generally agreed that the parents’ rights to consent or refusal of treatment should be limited to those decisions that are in the child’s best interest. Yet the notion of “best interests” is very difficult to determine and define. Although parents have the legal obligation to ensure the welfare of their child and to not take actions that may cause them harm, the medical decision making process has particular ambiguity. For instance, what types of decisions

“There is a need to instil in people's hearts, especially in the hearts of the young, a genuine and deep appreciation of the need for brotherly love, a love that can find expression in the decision to become an organ donor.” Pope John Paul II stated in the Address to International Congress on Transplants. In a culture of death and self-centeredness it is important to prompt the youth to consider becoming an organ donor. The number of people in need of a transplant is growing quickly, and already is at a large rate. Eighteen people will die each day waiting for an organ transplant; more must be done to help these people, yet it must be within the standards of medical ethics.

The most controversial issue with receiving organ donations is that the donor cannot legally choose who the recipient will be in most cases. Of course in a situation where one’s parent is dying, one is allowed to give up an organ if it is a good match, but if one decides to donate a kidney to his or her best

There are worse problems than not knowing whom their donor parent is, though. Lots of donor children grow up not knowing that they have a greater chance of having a medical problem. To donate, a person does not have to take any certain tests. They just have to show up and if their sperm or eggs look fine the hospital staff take it. “Regardless of socioeconomic status, donor offspring are twice as likely as those raised by biological parents to report problems with the law before age 25. They are more than twice as likely to report having struggled with substance abuse. And they are about 1.5 times as likely to report depression or other mental health problems,” said Karen Clark, an investigator. Not only are donor children more likely to get into problems with the law, they are more likely to get into problems dealing with their health. That is why donor children and their parents, the ones who raised them, should be allowed to know who the donor parent is.

The ethical issue for the majority of people in the U.S. does not seem to be whether donating organs should be allowed, but instead should someone be compensated for their donation. As described earlier, the U.S. has a major shortage of organs and an even greater shortage is found in some areas of the world. However, countries like Iran have found a way to eliminate their shortage completely. “Iran adopted a system of paying kidney donors in 1988 and within 11 years it became the only country in the world to clear its waiting list for transplants.” (Economist, 2011) Although this sounds promising, it is important to look at the effects on the organ donor. In a study done on Iranian donors who sold their kidneys, it was found that many donors were negatively affected emotionally and physically after donating and that given the chance most would never donate again nor would they advise anyone else to do so. (Zargooshi, 2001) Additionally, many claimed to be worse off financially after donating due to an inability to work. (Goyal, 2002) To some, this last set of findings would be enough to supersede the benefit of clearing the organ waiting lists.

Main Point 2: Myths, we have all heard some, we have all believed some. But right now, I am going to set the record straight about some of the misconceptions surrounding organ donation. Organdonor.gov will tell you about many facts and myths about organ donation. So let’s start with money. I’m sure you have all heard that when a someone donates their organs, their family has to foot the bill for all it. That is completely false. There is no cost to donors or their families for organ or tissue donation. Hence the word “donation”. The donor won’t be able to have