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At a recent meeting of the British Transplantation Society in Glasgow, Britain’s National Health Service disclosed plans<\/a> to encourage mothers of preborn babies with fatal defects to\u00a0carry their babies through birth – rather than aborting them\u00a0– so that the babies’ organs can be harvested.<\/p>\n

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When a preborn baby is diagnosed with\u00a0a fatal defect, such as anencephaly,\u00a0the mother will be “supported” to go through with the pregnancy and birth, allowing use of the child’s vital organs for transplantation. In some cases, the baby may be brain dead, but kept alive artificially during harvesting, in order to keep the body parts “fresh.” The UK Mirror reports:<\/p>\n

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Under the new proposals, mothers would give birth in the normal way and once doctors had certified the infant dead, its vital organs would be removed. However, donation would not be raised when a woman was still deciding whether or not to have an abortion \u2013 and nobody would be compelled to donate their baby\u2019s organs.<\/p>\n

In some cases, where donation has been agreed, babies could be certified brain dead but their bodies kept alive by artificial ventilation. Surgeons could then remove organs from these so-called \u2018heartbeat babies\u2019 when they are fresh, maximising what can be used and the chance of successful transplant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The move was prompted by Britain’s shortage in organs for transplantation, as more than 7,000 people await body parts for a transplant.<\/p>\n

Dr. Niaz Ahmad, transplant surgeon at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds, England,\u00a0believes the babies’ organs could be “a viable source of organ transplantation nationally.”<\/p>\n

But some doctors do not see as a “viable” source of organ transplantation here, and certainly not an ethical one.<\/p>\n

Dr. Trevor Stammers, director for bioethics at St Mary\u2019s University, London, spoke<\/a> against the plan proposed by the National Health Service, referring to the idea as “ghoulish.” He said that “raiding the bodies of children born only for their organs with further tarnish the profession” and could “undermine public confidence in transplantation.”<\/p>\n

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At a recent meeting of the British Transplantation Society in Glasgow, Britain’s National Health Service disclosed plans to encourage mothers of preborn babies with fatal defects to\u00a0carry their babies through birth – rather than aborting them\u00a0– so that the babies’ organs can be harvested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":81242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[7810,4235,1323,7808,7809],"yoast_head":"\nBritish Health Service suggests carrying terminally ill babies to harvest organs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The NHS plans to encourage mothers of preborn babies with fatal defects to give birth rather than abort - so that the babies' organs can be harvested.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/british-health-service-suggests-carrying-terminally-ill-babies-to-harvest-organs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"British Health Service suggests carrying terminally ill babies to harvest organs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The NHS plans to encourage mothers of preborn babies with fatal defects to give birth rather than abort - 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