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Living Donation Discussion and News => Living Donation in the News => Topic started by: Karol on February 21, 2011, 03:17:18 PM

Title: Sex offender denied chance to donate kidney
Post by: Karol on February 21, 2011, 03:17:18 PM

Sex offender denied chance to donate kidney

MON, 21 FEB 2011 7:00P.M.

There are 500 people on dialysis waiting for the organ that could give them their life back. There are nowhere near enough donors.
But if you needed a kidney - would you care where it came from?
Would you refuse it if it had once been the kidney of a murderer, or a sex offender?
Should an organ donor be judged on their medical suitability or on moral grounds?
This is a story about a healthy would-be donor - who says a recipient is not being given the chance of a new life because doctors have made a judgement about his character.
Watch the video. http://www.3news.co.nz/Sex-offender-denied-chance-to-donate-kidney/tabid/817/articleID/199196/Default.aspx

Title: Re: Sex offender denied chance to donate kidney
Post by: donor99 on March 04, 2011, 08:05:11 AM

I would imagine that he is not being denied on moral grounds but psychological grounds. It well known that donors can have PTSD/Depression after donation. He obviousy already has psychological issuses that could be exacerbated after donation