(Catholic Vote) – Following the results of a harrowing investigation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced July 20 that it has begun a comprehensive reform aimed at ending the practice of procuring organs while donors still show signs of life.
An investigation ordered by the HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has found that a federally funded organ procurement organization (OPO) was related to a concerning pattern: namely, “that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a press release. He called this discovery “horrifying.” CONTINUE