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Maryland: Using a “PVS” Diagnosis to justify Organ Harvesting Without Consent

Today ( Feb. 21, 2012) in the Maryland legislature, the House Health and Government Operations Committee held a hearing on HB 449, a bill to grant health care surrogates the power to donate “non-vital” organs (a kidney or lobe of a liver) of a person diagnosed to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). I … Continue reading Maryland: Using a “PVS” Diagnosis to justify Organ Harvesting Without Consent